Types of asexual sporulation in 17 Claviceps species and the closely related Corallocytostroma ornicopreoides were revised in relation to the phylogeny of clavicipitaceous fungi. We observed: (1) enteroblastic conidiation from branched phialidic conidiophores typical of the genus (anamorph Sphacelia) in all species including Corallocytostroma; (2) widespread and often sequential formation of terminal holoblastic secondary conidia on tapering hyphae arising from sphacelial macroconidia: and (3) in addition to sphacelial conidiation, sympodial holoblastic conidiation of the Ephelis-type in cultures of C. zizaniae and in both the culture and sphacelial tissue of C. citrina. Secondary conidiation was not found in C. purpurea, C. citrina and C. sorghicola. During sphacelial fructification, most species produced macroconidia and microconidia. Only macroconidia formed in planta underwent secondary conidiation whereas microconidia did not germinate at all. In C. phalaridis, the formation of holoblastic 2-3 celled appendaged conidia was observed, similar to that of Aciculosporium and Neoclaviceps. In dendrograms based on ITS1-5.8S rDNA-ITS2 sequences, genera and species with appendaged conidia grouped on a highly supported clade with ancestral Corallocytostroma. The clade was placed inside a group of tropical species of Claviceps, without any relationship to Balansiae.
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