Balansia
Encyclopedia
Balansia is a genus
of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae
family.
Species from this genus have been found to produce an ergopeptine otherwise unknown and nature, and based upon this discovery it was subsequently named ergobalansine
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae
Clavicipitaceae
Clavicipitaceae is a family of fungi within the order Hypocreales. It consists of 43 genera, and 321 species.-Phylogeny:Molecular phylogenetic analysis of multigene DNA sequence data indicates that the taxon, Clavicipitaceae, is paraphyletic, and consists of three well-defined clades, at least one...
family.
Species from this genus have been found to produce an ergopeptine otherwise unknown and nature, and based upon this discovery it was subsequently named ergobalansine