Botrytis elliptica (Berk.) Cooke
(Lily Disease - causative organism)

Interactions where Botrytis elliptica 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
Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages flowering shoot			Lilium	lilies	Liliales: Liliaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis elliptica/	Botrytis elliptica	lily disease - causative organism			colony	Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Lilium/	Lilium	lilies			flowering shoot
Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph		sclerotium of Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages diseased tissue			Lilium	lilies	Liliales: Liliaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis elliptica/	Botrytis elliptica	lily disease - causative organism			sclerotium	Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Lilium/	Lilium	lilies		diseased	tissue
Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Lilium	lilies	Liliales: Liliaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis elliptica/	Botrytis elliptica	lily disease - causative organism			colony	Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Lilium/	Lilium	lilies		live	leaf
Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages flowering shoot			Lilium candidum	Madonna Lily	Liliales: Liliaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis elliptica/	Botrytis elliptica	lily disease - causative organism			colony	Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Lilium candidum/	Lilium candidum	Madonna lily			flowering shoot		Major
Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph		sclerotium of Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages diseased tissue			Lilium candidum	Madonna Lily	Liliales: Liliaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis elliptica/	Botrytis elliptica	lily disease - causative organism			sclerotium	Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Lilium candidum/	Lilium candidum	Madonna lily		diseased	tissue		Major
Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Lilium candidum	Madonna Lily	Liliales: Liliaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis elliptica/	Botrytis elliptica	lily disease - causative organism			colony	Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Lilium candidum/	Lilium candidum	Madonna lily		live	leaf		Major
Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph		colony of Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live			Lilium speciosum	Japanese Lily	Liliales: Liliaceae	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis elliptica/	Botrytis elliptica	lily disease - causative organism			colony	Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Lilium speciosum/	Lilium speciosum	Japanese lily		live			Minor	Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced

Author & Year	Title	Source
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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

Botrytis elliptica (Lily Disease - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Botrytis elliptica (Lily Disease - 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:

Anamorphic Species	Botrytis elliptica (Lily Disease - causative organism)
Genus	Botrytis (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)
Family	SCLEROTINIACEAE (a family of discomycetes)
Order	HELOTIALES (an order of discomycetes and lichens)
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)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Botrytis elliptica (Lily Disease - causative organism)

Botrytis elliptica (Lily Disease - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

SCLEROTINIACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)

LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
(powdery mildews)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes
(dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

Discomycetes
(discomycete fungi)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Botrytis elliptica (Lily Disease - causative organism):

SCLEROTINIACEAE
(a family of discomycetes)

HELOTIALES
(an order of discomycetes and lichens)

LEOTIOMYCETIDAE
(powdery mildews)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes
(dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

Discomycetes
(discomycete fungi)

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

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