sentences:  "Epichloë typhina" would remain the only species in the genus until the discovery of fungal grass endophytes causing livestock intoxications in the 1970s and 1980s, which stimulated the description of new species.Several species from Africa and Asia that develop stromata on grasses were split off as a separate genus "Parepichloë" in 1998.Many "Epichloë" species have forms that reproduce sexually, and several purely asexual species are closely related to them.