Neotyphodium aotearoae

Neotyphodium aotearoae is a systemic and seed-transmissible symbiont of Echinopogon ovatus, a grass endemic to Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa. The fungus produces the anti-insect loline alkaloids. Unlike most Neotyphodium species, N. aotearoae does not appear to be a hybrid. Its closest teleomorphic (sexual) relative appears to be Epichloë typhina.^[1]

References

1. ^ Moon CD, Miles CO, Jarlfors U, Schardl CL (2002). "The evolutionary origins of three new Neotyphodium endophyte species from grasses indigenous to the Southern Hemisphere". Mycologia 94: 694-711.