Colletotrichum orbiculare (Berk.) Arx
(Cucumber Anthracnose - causative organism)

Interactions where Colletotrichum orbiculare 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
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live leaf			Cucumis melo	Melon	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			pycnidium	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis melo/	Cucumis melo	melon		live	leaf		Minor
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Cucumis melo	Melon	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			pycnidium	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis melo/	Cucumis melo	melon		live	fruit		Minor
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		acervulus of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Cucumis sativus	Cucumber, Gherkin	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			acervulus	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis sativus/	Cucumis sativus	cucumber, gherkin		live	fruit
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live leaf			Cucumis sativus	Cucumber, Gherkin	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			pycnidium	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis sativus/	Cucumis sativus	cucumber, gherkin		live	leaf		Major
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Cucumis sativus	Cucumber, Gherkin	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			pycnidium	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis sativus/	Cucumis sativus	cucumber, gherkin		live	fruit		Major
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		acervulus of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Cucumis sativus	Cucumber, Gherkin	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			acervulus	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis sativus/	Cucumis sativus	cucumber, gherkin		live	leaf
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live leaf			Cucurbita pepo	Marrow	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			pycnidium	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucurbita pepo/	Cucurbita pepo	marrow		live	leaf		Minor
Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph		pycnidium of Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Cucurbita pepo	Marrow	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Glomerellaceae/Colletotrichum orbiculare/	Colletotrichum orbiculare	cucumber anthracnose (causative organism)			pycnidium	Colletotrichum coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucurbita pepo/	Cucurbita pepo	marrow		live	fruit		Minor

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
Moore, W.C., 1959	British Parasitic Fungi	430pp, Cambridge University Press

Colletotrichum orbiculare (Cucumber Anthracnose - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Colletotrichum orbiculare (Cucumber Anthracnose - causative organism) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Coelomycetes
(stem- and leaf-fungi)

Pyrenomycetes
(charcoal fungi)

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

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Anamorphic Species	Colletotrichum orbiculare (Cucumber Anthracnose - causative organism)
Genus	Colletotrichum (a form genus of coelomycetes)
Family	GLOMERELLACEAE (a family of pyrenomycetes)
Subclass	HYPOCREOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes)
Class	SORDARIOMYCETES (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)

Colletotrichum orbiculare is also a member of:
Coelomycetes - stem- and leaf-fungi (via Colletotrichum)
Anamorphic fungi - mitosporic fungi (via Coelomycetes)
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Anamorphic fungi)
Pyrenomycetes - charcoal fungi (via Sordariomycetes)
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 Colletotrichum orbiculare (Cucumber Anthracnose - causative organism)

Colletotrichum orbiculare (Cucumber Anthracnose - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Colletotrichum
(a form genus of coelomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Coelomycetes
(stem- and leaf-fungi)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

Pyrenomycetes
(charcoal fungi)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Colletotrichum orbiculare (Cucumber Anthracnose - causative organism):

Colletotrichum
(a form genus of coelomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Coelomycetes
(stem- and leaf-fungi)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

Pyrenomycetes
(charcoal fungi)

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

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