w:Epichloë aotearoae

{{Short description|Species of fungus}}

{{Speciesbox

|taxon = Epichloë aotearoae

|authority = (C.D. Moon, C.O. Miles & Schardl) Leuchtm. & Schardl

|synonyms =

• Neotyphodium aotearoae {{small|C.D. Moon, C.O. Miles & Schardl}}

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Epichloë aotearoae is a systemic and seed-transmissible symbiont of Echinopogon ovatus, a grass endemic to Australia and New Zealand. It was originally described as a Neotyphodium species in 2002{{cite journal|vauthors=Moon CD, Miles CO, Jarlfors U, Schardl CL |year=2002|title=The evolutionary origins of three new Neotyphodium endophyte species from grasses indigenous to the Southern Hemisphere|journal=Mycologia|volume=94|pages=694–711|doi=10.2307/3761720|issue=4|pmid=21156542|jstor=3761720}} but moved to Epichloë in 2014.{{cite journal |last1=Leuchtmann |first1=A. |last2=Bacon |first2=C. W. |last3=Schardl |first3=C. L. |last4=White |first4=J. F. |last5=Tadych |first5=M. |title=Nomenclatural realignment of Neotyphodium species with genus Epichloë |journal=Mycologia |volume=106 |issue=2 |year=2014 |pages=202–215 |issn=0027-5514 |doi=10.3852/13-251 |url=http://www.epa.govt.nz/search-databases/HSNO%20Application%20Register%20Documents/APP201774_Leuchtmann%20et%20al%202014.pdf |pmid=24459125 |s2cid=25222557 |access-date=2016-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307124043/http://www.epa.govt.nz/search-databases/HSNO%20Application%20Register%20Documents/APP201774_Leuchtmann%20et%20al%202014.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-07 |url-status=dead }}

The fungus produces the anti-insect loline alkaloids. Unlike many other anamorphic Epichloë species, E. aotearoae does not appear to be a hybrid. Its closest teleomorphic (sexual) relative appears to be Epichloë typhina.