Endophytic Fungi in Species of .

The genus , a collection of ~400 hardy herbaceous plant and shrub species, is an important resource contributing to chemistry, medicine, agriculture, industry, and ecology. Its communities of endophytic fungi have only recently begun to be explored. Summarized from studies conducted on the fungal endophytes in species, both fungal phylogenetic diversity and the associated bioactivity was examined. Isolations from 14 species of have led to 51 genera of fungal endophytes, 28 families, and 18 orders. Endophytes belonged mainly to , except for two taxa of and , one taxon of , and one species of . The mostly common families were , , , and (relative abundance = 14.89, 8.51, 7.14 and 6.38, respectively). In the search for bioactive metabolites, 27 novel compounds were characterized and 22 metabolites were isolated between 2006 and 2017. The first study on endophytic fungi isolated from species of was published but 18 years ago. This summary of recently acquired data illustrates the considerable diversity of biological purposes addressed by fungal endophytes of spp.