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Balansia
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassSordariomycetes
- OrderHypocreales
- FamilyClavicipitaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 65
- With media
- 44
- Family
- Clavicipitaceae
- Collections
- F, LSUM, MIN, NY, TENN-F, OSC
- Recorded in
- Honduras, Brazil, United States, Philippines, Trinidad And Tobago, Brasil, Indonesia, Venezuela
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Clavicipitaceae
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- taxon name
- Balansia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Speg.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
Balansia is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.
Species from this genus have been found to produce an ergopeptine otherwise unknown in nature, and based upon this discovery it was subsequently named ergobalansine
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