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Neotyphodium melicicola is a systemic and seed-transmissible symbiont of Melica decumbens and Melica racemosa, grasses endemic to southern Africa. [1] Molecular phylogenetic analysis indicates that N. melicicola is an interspecific hybrid, and that its closest relatives are the teleomorphic (sexual) species, Epichloë festucae, and the anamorphic (asexual) species, Neotyphodium aotearoae.
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- ^ 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. doi:10.2307/3761720.
