Neotyphodium
Neotyphodium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Hypocreales |
Family: | Clavicipitaceae |
Genus: | Neotyphodium Glenn, C.W. Bacon & Hanlin (1996) |
Type species | |
Neotyphodium coenophialum (Morgan-Jones & W. Gams) Glenn, C.W. Bacon & Hanlin (1996)
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Neotyphodium is a
endophytic fungi symbiotic with grasses. It used to contain a number of asexually reproducing species that colonize the leaves of cool-season grasses, but most of them, including the type species N. coenophialum, were merged into the genus Epichloë in 2014.[1]
Two species of unclear position were excluded from this treatment:
- Neotyphodium chilense from Chile should be treated as Acremonium chilense since the previous transfer to Neotyphodium is untested.
- Neotyphodium starrii is closely related to N. coenophialum,[2] but the taxonomic status within Epichloë (whether it is a distinct species or not) is unclear (nomen dubium).
References
- PMID 24459125.
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