Biology:Balansia

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Balansia
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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. http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp. Retrieved 2015-09-24. 
  2. Ergot: The Genus Claviceps, Vladimír Křen, Ladislav Cvak

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