Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Pers.) Höhn.
(Willow Anthracnose - causative organism)

Interactions where Drepanopeziza sphaerioides is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live twig			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Salix, Anon., 2007 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		live	twig
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live shoot			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Salix, Anon., 2007 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		live	shoot
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Salix, Anon., 2007 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		live	leaf
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph parasitises live leaf			Salix alba x babylonica = S. x sepulcralis	weeping willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba x babylonica = S. x sepulcralis/	Salix alba x babylonica = S. x sepulcralis	weeping willow		live	leaf
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph parasitises live twig (small)			Salix alba x babylonica = S. x sepulcralis	weeping willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba x babylonica = S. x sepulcralis/	Salix alba x babylonica = S. x sepulcralis	weeping willow		live	twig (small)
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live shoot			Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma	a weeping willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma/	Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma	a weeping willow		live	shoot		Major
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live twig			Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma	a weeping willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma/	Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma	a weeping willow		live	twig		Major
Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph		Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma	a weeping willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Drepanopeziza sphaerioides/	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides	willow anthracnose (causative organism)				Marssonina coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma/	Salix x sepulcralis nothovar. chrysocoma	a weeping willow		live	leaf		Major

Author & Year	Title	Source
Anon., 2007	CSL Pest Risk Analysis for Salix	PRAs for consultation on pest risk management PRAs for consultation on pest risk management.
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Willow Anthracnose - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Willow Anthracnose - causative organism) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Willow Anthracnose - causative organism)
Genus	Drepanopeziza (a genus of discomycetes)
Family	DERMATEACEAE (a family of discomycetes)
Order	HELOTIALES (an order of discomycetes and lichens)
Subclass	LEOTIOMYCETIDAE (powdery mildews)
Class	LEOTIOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Drepanopeziza sphaerioides is also a member of:
Discomycetes - discomycete fungi (via Helotiales)
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Willow Anthracnose - causative organism)

Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Willow Anthracnose - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DERMATEACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)

LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
(powdery mildews)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Discomycetes
(discomycete fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Drepanopeziza sphaerioides (Willow Anthracnose - causative organism):

DERMATEACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)

LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
(powdery mildews)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Discomycetes
(discomycete fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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