Neotyphodium aotearoae

Neotyphodium aotearoae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Ascomycetes
Subclass:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Hypocreales
Family:	Clavicipitaceae
Genus:	Neotyphodium
Species:	N. aotearoae
Binomial name
Neotyphodium aotearoae C.D. Moon, C.O. Miles & Schardl

Neotyphodium aotearoae is a systemic and seed-transmissible symbiont of Echinopogon ovatus, a grass endemic to Australia and New Zealand. The fungus produces the anti-insect loline alkaloids. Unlike most Neotyphodium species, N. aotearoae does not appear to be a hybrid. Its closest teleomorphic (sexual) relative appears to be Epichloë typhina.^[1]

References

1. ^ Moon CD, Miles CO, Jarlfors U, Schardl CL. (2002). "The evolutionary origins of three new Neotyphodium endophyte species from grasses indigenous to the Southern Hemisphere". Mycologia (Mycological Society of America) 94 (4): 694–711. doi:10.2307/3761720. JSTOR 3761720. PMID 21156542.