Neotyphodium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Ascomycetes |
Subclass: | 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) |
Neotyphodium is a genus of endophytic fungi symbiotic with grasses. It used to contain a number of asexually reproducing species colonising the leaves of cool-season grasses, but most of them, including the type species N. coenophialum, have been merged into the genus Epichloë in 2014. Two species of unclear position are exclude from this treatment:
Neotyphodium in Index Fungorum Neotyphodium in MycoBank.