Venturia saliciperda Nüesch
(Willow Scab - causative organism)

Interactions where Venturia saliciperda 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
		infects and damages live, imperfectly developed, shrivelled leaf (young)			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		live, imperfectly developed, shrivelled	leaf (young)
		infects and damages live shoot			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		live	shoot
		infects and damages live, cankered stem			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		live, cankered	stem
Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph		Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Salix alba	White Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba/	Salix alba	white willow		live	leaf				(summer)
Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph		Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live shoot			Salix alba	White Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba/	Salix alba	white willow		live	shoot				(summer)
pseudothecium		pseudothecium is saprobic on dead leaf			Salix alba	White Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				pseudothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba/	Salix alba	white willow		dead	leaf				(4-5)
Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph		Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Salix babylonica	Weeping Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		live	leaf				(summer)
Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph		Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live shoot			Salix babylonica	Weeping Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		live	shoot				(summer)
pseudothecium		pseudothecium is saprobic on dead leaf			Salix babylonica	Weeping Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				pseudothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix babylonica/	Salix babylonica	weeping willow		dead	leaf				(4-5)
Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph		Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Salix triandra	Almond Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix triandra/	Salix triandra	almond willow		live	leaf				(summer)
Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph		Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live shoot			Salix triandra	Almond Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				Pollaccia dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix triandra/	Salix triandra	almond willow		live	shoot				(summer)
pseudothecium		pseudothecium is saprobic on dead leaf			Salix triandra	Almond Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Venturiales/Venturiaceae/Venturia saliciperda/	Venturia saliciperda	willow scab (causative organism)				pseudothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix triandra/	Salix triandra	almond willow		dead	leaf				(4-5)

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

Venturia saliciperda (Willow Scab - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Venturia saliciperda (Willow Scab - 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	Venturia saliciperda (Willow Scab - causative organism)
Genus	Venturia (Bot.) (scabs)
Family	VENTURIACEAE (a family of ascomycetes)
Order	VENTURIALES (an order of fungi)
Subclass	PLEOSPOROMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes)
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)

Venturia saliciperda 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 Venturia saliciperda (Willow Scab - causative organism)

Venturia saliciperda (Willow Scab - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Venturia (Bot.)
(scabs)

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 Venturia saliciperda (Willow Scab - causative organism):

Venturia (Bot.)
(scabs)

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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