Epichloe clarkii
This fungal growth affects Creeping Soft-brome (Holcus mollis) and Yorkshire-fog (H. lanatus) grasses. One or more internodes all round and mostly over their total length, wrapped in a white, later yellowish fungal mass (stroma). The internodes are hardly or not at all swollen.
Other Epichloe species are found on other host plants
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Not well recorded, but seems to be widely distributed in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Peter Smith
Cropston, Puddledyke
03 August 2021
Choke on Creeping soft-grass
Peter Smith
Cropston, Puddledyke
03 August 2021
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