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Claviceps purpurea
Claviceps purpurea, the ergot fungus (ergot), an ascomycete in Clavicipitaceae that infects grass ovaries, replaces grain with toxic alkaloid-containing sclerotia, causes ergotism, and splits into four cryptic species.
Neotyphodium
Neotyphodium, a former form genus of asexual, seed-transmitted grass endophytes (Clavicipitaceae) split from Acremonium in 1996 and synonymized under Epichloë in 2014; source of fescue toxicosis and ryegrass staggers.