Phoma apiicola Kleb.
(Celery Root Rot - causative organism)

Interactions where Phoma apiicola 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
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		Phoma coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages drooping cotyledon of seedling			Apium graveolens	Wild Celery	Apiales: Apiaceae	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/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Leptosphaeriaceae/Phoma apiicola/	Phoma apiicola	celery root rot (causative organism)				Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Apiales/Apiaceae/Apium graveolens/	Apium graveolens	wild celery		drooping	cotyledon	seedling
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph		Phoma coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages red-purple stem of seedling			Apium graveolens	Wild Celery	Apiales: Apiaceae	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/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Leptosphaeriaceae/Phoma apiicola/	Phoma apiicola	celery root rot (causative organism)				Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Apiales/Apiaceae/Apium graveolens/	Apium graveolens	wild celery		red-purple	stem	seedling
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph (immersed or erumpent)		immersed or erumpent pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages leaf			Apium graveolens	Wild Celery	Apiales: Apiaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Leptosphaeriaceae/Phoma apiicola/	Phoma apiicola	celery root rot (causative organism)		immersed or erumpent	pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Apiales/Apiaceae/Apium graveolens/	Apium graveolens	wild celery			leaf
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph (immersed or erumpent)		immersed or erumpent pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages stem (just below spoil)			Apium graveolens	Wild Celery	Apiales: Apiaceae	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/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Leptosphaeriaceae/Phoma apiicola/	Phoma apiicola	celery root rot (causative organism)		immersed or erumpent	pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Apiales/Apiaceae/Apium graveolens/	Apium graveolens	wild celery			stem (just below spoil)
Phoma coelomycetous anamorph (immersed or erumpent)		immersed or erumpent pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages root			Apium graveolens	Wild Celery	Apiales: Apiaceae	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/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Leptosphaeriaceae/Phoma apiicola/	Phoma apiicola	celery root rot (causative organism)		immersed or erumpent	pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Apiales/Apiaceae/Apium graveolens/	Apium graveolens	wild celery			root

Author & Year	Title	Source
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

Phoma apiicola (Celery Root Rot - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Phoma apiicola (Celery Root Rot - 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:

Anamorphic Species	Phoma apiicola (Celery Root Rot - causative organism)
Species	Subplenodomus apiicola (a fungus)
Family	LEPTOSPHAERIACEAE (a family of ascomycetes)
Order	PLEOSPORALES (an order of ascomycetes and lichens)
Subclass	DOTHIDEOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of fungi)
Class	DOTHIDEOMYCETES (a class of ascomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Phoma apiicola is also a member of:
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 Phoma apiicola (Celery Root Rot - causative organism)

Phoma apiicola (Celery Root Rot - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PLEOSPORALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Phoma apiicola (Celery Root Rot - causative organism):

PLEOSPORALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

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