Balansia
Genus of fungi
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Balansia is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.[1]
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| Balansia | |
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| Balansia bambusae, please click on image for details. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Clavicipitaceae |
| Tribe: | Balansiae |
| Genus: | Balansia Speg. (1885) |
| Type species | |
| Balansia claviceps Speg. (1885) | |
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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]
