#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
  subtype:  #rye_ergot  a sclerotium or hardened mass of mycelium
  member of:  #genus_Claviceps__Claviceps  fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses
     member of:  #family_Hypocreaceae__Hypocreaceae  family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps; sometimes placed in its own order Hypocreales
        member of:  #order_Sphaeriales__Sphaeriales  large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders
           member of:  #class_Pyrenomycetes__Pyrenomycetes  class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and neurospora
              member of:  #subdivision_Ascomycota__Ascomycota__Ascomycotina__subdivision_Ascomycotina  a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi
                 member of:  #division_Eumycota__Eumycota  true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
                    member of:  #kingdom_Fungi__Fungi__fungus_kingdom  the taxonomic kingdom of lower plants

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