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Clavicipitaceae

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Claviceps purpurea

species of fungus

Beauveria bassiana

species of fungus

Clavicipitaceae

The Clavicipitaceae are a family of fungi within the order Hypocreales. A 2008 estimate placed 43 genera in the family, but a study in 2020 has increased this number to 50.

Beauveria is a genus of asexually-reproducing fungi allied with the ascomycete family Cordycipitaceae. Its several species are typically insect pathogens. The sexual states (teleomorphs) of Beauveria species, where known, are species of Cordyceps .

Metarhizium anisopliae

species of fungus

Metarhizium is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae. With the advent of genetic profiling, placing these fungi in proper taxa has now become possible. Most turn out to be the asexual forms (anamorphs) of fungi in the phylum Ascomycota, including Metacordyceps spp.

Claviceps fusiformis

species of fungus

Claviceps paspali

species of fungus

Balansia is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.

Hypocrella is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.

Paecilomyces fumosoroseus

species of fungus

Isaria sinclairii

species of fungus

Metacordyceps is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae. The anamorphs of Metacordyceps appear to include Metarhizium species.

Claviceps sorghi

species of fungus

Metarhizium acridum

species of fungus

Polycephalomyces

Polycephalomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiocordycipitaceae.

Harposporium is a genus of anamorphic fungi within the family Clavicipitaceae.

Heteroepichloë

Heteroepichloë is a genus of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae family.

Ustilaginoidea is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae. The genus contains 19 species. Ustilaginoidea was circumscribed by German botanist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1895, with Ustilaginoidea oryzae assigned as the type species. Ustilaginoidea virens causes the disesase known alternatively as rice false smut, pseudosmut, or green smut.

Metarhizium flavoviride

species of fungus

Pochonia is a genus of fungi within the order Hypocreales and is described as anamorphic Metacordyceps; eight species are described. Previously placed in the genus Verticillium, these fungi are known to be pathogenic to nematodes and are being developed and commercialized as biological pesticides.

Neobarya is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.

Aschersonia aleyrodis

species of fungus

Shimizuomyces is a genus of fungi within the family Clavicipitaceae.

Loculistroma bambusae

Loculistroma is a genus of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Loculistroma bambusae.

Romanoa terricola

name that may not be used

Moelleriella is a genus of fungi within the family Clavicipitaceae.

Aciculosporium is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae. Species of this genus cause witches' broom of bamboo in East Asia. Aciculosporium take grows intercellularly in witches' broom shoots, including shoot apical meristems. The stroma are produced around the apex of the host shoots.

Neotyphodium chilense

species of fungus

Cavimalum is a genus of fungi within the Clavicipitaceae family.

Drechmeria is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.