Balansia

Balansia
	Balansia bambusae, please click on image for details.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Hypocreales
Family:	Clavicipitaceae
Tribe:	Balansiae
Genus:	Balansia; 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

^ 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.
^ Ergot: The Genus Claviceps, Vladimír Křen, Ladislav Cvak

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[OoA-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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