Epichloë pampeana is a hybrid asexual species in the fungal genus Epichloë.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Hypocreales |
Family: | Clavicipitaceae |
Genus: | Epichloë |
Species: | E. pampeana
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Binomial name | |
Epichloë pampeana (Iannone & Cabral) Iannone & Schardl
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A systemic and seed-transmissible grass symbiont first described in 2009,[1] Epichloë pampeana is a natural allopolyploid of Epichloë festucae and a strain from the Epichloë typhina complex (from Poa nemoralis).
Epichloë pampeana is found in South America, where it has been identified in the grass species Bromus auleticus.
References
edit- ^ Iannone, Leopoldo Javier; Cabral, Daniel; Schardl, Christopher Lewis; Rossi, María Susana (2009). "Phylogenetic divergence, morphological and physiological differences distinguish a new Neotyphodium endophyte species in the grass Bromus auleticus from South America". Mycologia. 101 (3): 340–351. doi:10.3852/08-156. ISSN 0027-5514.