#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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