#Claviceps_purpurea__ergot  a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
  supertype:  fungus  a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores
  member of:  genus_Claviceps
  subtype:  rye_ergot__ryeergot  a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium

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