Balansia Explained

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^[1]

Notes and References

1. Ergot: The Genus Claviceps, Vladimír Křen, Ladislav Cvak