Erysiphe knautiae Duby
(Scabious Mildew)

Interactions where Erysiphe knautiae 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
cleistothecium		cleistothecium parasitises live			Knautia arvensis	Field Scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew				cleistothecium	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Knautia arvensis/	Knautia arvensis	field scabious		live
conidial anamorph		conidial anamorph parasitises live			Knautia arvensis	Field Scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew				conidial anamorph	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Knautia arvensis/	Knautia arvensis	field scabious		live
		parasitises live			Knautia sylvestris	a scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Knautia sylvestris/	Knautia sylvestris	a scabious		live
		parasitises live			Scabiosa atropurpurea	Sweet Scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Scabiosa atropurpurea/	Scabiosa atropurpurea	sweet scabious		live
		parasitises live			Scabiosa columbaria	Small Scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew					Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Scabiosa columbaria/	Scabiosa columbaria	small scabious		live
		parasitises live			Scabiosa longifolia	a cultivated scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Scabiosa longifolia/	Scabiosa longifolia	a cultivated scabious		live
		parasitises live			Scabiosa lucida	a cultivated scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Scabiosa lucida/	Scabiosa lucida	a cultivated scabious		live
		parasitises live			Succisa pratensis	Devil’s-bit, Devil’s-bit Scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Succisa pratensis/	Succisa pratensis	devil's-bit, devil's-bit scabious		live
		parasitises live			Tremastelma palaestinum	a cultivated scabious	Dipsacales: Caprifoliaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Dipsacales/Caprifoliaceae/Tremastelma palaestinum/	Tremastelma palaestinum	a cultivated scabious		live

Interactions where Erysiphe knautiae is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

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

Filters:

Affected Part		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	Summary
		is grazed by larva			Mycodiplosis erysiphes	(A Rust Midge)	Diptera: Cecidomyiidae	Revision in Mitteleuropa vorkommender mycophager Gallmucken der Mycodiplosis-gruppe (Diptera, Cecidomiidae) unter Berucksichtigung ihrer Wirtspezifitat, Holz, B., 1970	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Cecidomyiidae/Mycodiplosis erysiphes/	Mycodiplosis erysiphes	(a rust midge)				larva	Fungus / external feeder		Foreign	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew								larva grazes on
		is grazed by larva			Mycodiplosis oidii	a gall midge	Diptera: Cecidomyiidae	Revision in Mitteleuropa vorkommender mycophager Gallmucken der Mycodiplosis-gruppe (Diptera, Cecidomiidae) unter Berucksichtigung ihrer Wirtspezifitat, Holz, B., 1970	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Cecidomyiidae/Mycodiplosis oidii/	Mycodiplosis oidii	a gall midge				larva	Fungus / external feeder		Foreign	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe knautiae/	Erysiphe knautiae	scabious mildew								larva grazes on

Author & Year	Title	Source
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Holz, B., 1970	Revision in Mitteleuropa vorkommender mycophager Gallmucken der Mycodiplosis-gruppe (Diptera, Cecidomiidae) unter Berucksichtigung ihrer Wirtspezifitat
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.

Erysiphe knautiae (Scabious Mildew) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Erysiphe knautiae (Scabious Mildew) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

ERYSIPHACEAE
(powdery mildews)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

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

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Erysiphe knautiae (Scabious Mildew)
Genus	Erysiphe (a genus of powdery mildews)
Family	ERYSIPHACEAE (powdery mildews)
Order	ERYSIPHALES (powdery mildews)
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)

Erysiphe knautiae 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 Erysiphe knautiae (Scabious Mildew)

Erysiphe knautiae (Scabious Mildew) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

ERYSIPHALES
(powdery mildews)

LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
(powdery mildews)

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 Erysiphe knautiae (Scabious Mildew):

ERYSIPHACEAE
(powdery mildews)

ERYSIPHALES
(powdery mildews)

LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
(powdery mildews)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

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