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Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary, 1884 (a discomycete)

Suggested Literature

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)
SCLEROTINIACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is associated with:

Photos apothecium Humulus lupulus - Hop (Cannabinaceae) sclerotial, long-stalked apothecium is saprobic on dead, decaying, overwintered stem Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos apothecium Herbaceous Plants sclerotial, long-stalked apothecium is saprobic on dead, decaying, overwintered Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos sclerotium Humulus lupulus - Hop (Cannabinaceae) embedded sclerotium is saprobic on dead, decaying stem Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
Photos sclerotium Herbaceous Plants embedded sclerotium is saprobic on dead, decaying Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Associated with Sclerotinia sclerotiorum:

sclerotium sclerotium is parasitised by pycnidium of Coniothyrium coelomycetous anamorph Coniothyrium minitans - a coelomycete (Pleosporales: Leptosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
sclerotium sclerotium is parasitised by cleistothecium Sphaerodes fimicola - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Ceratostomataceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook

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