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Platanus L. (planes)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #webs
Species Platanus occidentalis L. (American Sycamore)   2
Species Platanus orientalis L. (Oriental Plane)   3
Hybrid Platanus x hispanica (P. occidentalis x orientalis) Miller ex Muenchh. (London Plane) 9 5

Suggested Literature

Platanus may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Platanus:

Photos stump (large) (dead) dead stump (large) is decayed by fruitbody Meripilus giganteus - Giant Polypore (Polyporales: Meripilaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stump (large) (dead) dead stump (large) is decayed by fruitbody Rigidoporus ulmarius - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Meripilaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
Photos stump (relatively freshly cut, white rotted) relatively freshly cut, white rotted stump is decayed by fruitbody Pholiota squarrosa - Shaggy Scalycap (Agaricales: Strophariaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
trunk (base) (live) live trunk (base) is parasitised by fruitbody Perenniporia fraxinea - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Polyporaceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
trunk (base) (live) live trunk (base) is decayed by fruitbody Perenniporia fraxinea - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Polyporaceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
Photos trunk (base) trunk (base) may be infected and damaged by fruitbody Meripilus giganteus - Giant Polypore (Polyporales: Meripilaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos trunk (dead) dead trunk is decayed by fruitbody Inonotus hispidus - Shaggy Bracket (Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos trunk (esp. base) (dead, white rotted) dead, white rotted trunk (esp. base) is decayed by fruitbody Pholiota squarrosa - Shaggy Scalycap (Agaricales: Strophariaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
Photos trunk (esp. base) (live) live trunk (esp. base) is parasitised by fruitbody Pholiota squarrosa - Shaggy Scalycap (Agaricales: Strophariaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
Photos trunk (large) (dead) dead trunk (large) is decayed by fruitbody Meripilus giganteus - Giant Polypore (Polyporales: Meripilaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
trunk (large) (live) live trunk (large) is parasitised by fruitbody Rigidoporus ulmarius - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Meripilaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
Photos trunk (live) live trunk is galled by fruitbody Inonotus obliquus - a bracket fungus (Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae) Questionable Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos trunk (live) live trunk is parasitised by fruitbody Inonotus hispidus - Shaggy Bracket (Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by subepidermal conidioma of Dichomera coelomycetous anamorph Dichomera mutabilis - a coelomycete (Dothideales) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by immersed perithecium Splanchnonema platani - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Pleomassariaceae)
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by subepidermal Microdipodiopsis dematiaceous anamorph Splanchnonema platani - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Pleomassariaceae)
twig (dead) dead twig is decayed by immersed, grouped perithecium Hapalocystis berkeleyi - a pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Melanconidaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos wood (dead) dead wood is decayed by bracket Daedaleopsis confragosa - Blushing Bracket (Polyporales: Polyporaceae) UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos wood (dead, fallen, usually decorticate) dead, fallen, usually decorticate wood is decayed by fruitbody Exidia nucleata - Crystal Brain (Tremellales: Exidiaceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos wood wood is decayed by fruitbody Auricularia auricula-judae - Jelly Ear, The Jew’s Ear Or Judas’s Ear Fungus (Auriculariales: Auriculariaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Platanus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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