Balansia

Balansia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Clavicipitaceae
Genus: Balansia
Speg. (1885)
Type species
Balansia claviceps
Speg. (1885)

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. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 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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