Balansia

Balansia
Balansia bambusae, please click on image for details.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Clavicipitaceae
Tribe: Balansiae
Genus:
Speg. (1885)
Type species
Balansia claviceps
Speg. (1885)
Synonyms
  • Dothichloe G.F. Atk. (1894)
  • Ophiodothis Sacc. (1883)
  • Trichochora Theiss. & Syd. (1915)

Balansia is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.[1]

Species from this genus have been found to produce an ergopeptine otherwise unknown in nature, and based upon this discovery it was subsequently named ergobalansine[2]

References

  1. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  2. ^ Ergot: The Genus Claviceps, Vladimír Křen, Ladislav Cvak


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