Claviceps purpurea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Sordariomycetes
- Order
- Hypocreales
- Family
- Clavicipitaceae
- Genus
- Claviceps
- Species
- Claviceps purpurea
- Scientific Name
- Claviceps purpurea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Claviceps purpurea
Claviceps purpurea is an ergot fungus that grows on the ears of rye and related cereal and forage plants. Consumption of grains or seeds contaminated with the survival structure of this fungus, the ergot sclerotium, can cause ergotism in humans and other mammals. C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley. It affects oats only rarely.
...Claviceps purpurea in languages:
- Bokmål
- meldrøye
- Bokmål
- mjølauke
- Chinese
- 麥角菌
- Czech
- paličkovice nachová
- Danish
- Meldrøjer
- English
- Rye Ergot Fungus
- English
- Rye Ergot
- Finnish
- torajyväsieni
- French
- Ergot de seigle
- German
- Purpurbrauner Mutterkornpilz
- Hungarian
- anyarozs
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis skalsiagrybis
- Russian
- Спорынья ржи
- Swedish
- mjöldryga
- Turkish
- çavdar mahmuzu
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Claviceps arundinis
- Claviceps bavariensis
- Claviceps capensis
- Claviceps cyperi
- Claviceps fimbristylidis
- Claviceps grohii
- Claviceps humidiphila
- Claviceps macroura
- Claviceps monticola
- Claviceps nigricans
- Claviceps occidentalis
- Claviceps pazoutovae
- Claviceps perihumidiphila
- Claviceps purpurea
- Claviceps quebecensis
- Claviceps ripicola
- Claviceps spartinae
- Claviceps zizaniae































































































































































