Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) C.T. Wei
(Cucumber Leaf Blotch - causative organism)

Interactions where Corynespora cassiicola 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
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live petal			Hydrangea macrophylla	Hydrangea	Cornales: Hydrangeaceae	Petal spotting of hydrangea flowers caused by Corynespora cassiicola: old pathogen - new disease, Leite, R.S. & Barreto, R.W., 2000	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cornales/Hydrangeaceae/Hydrangea macrophylla/	Hydrangea macrophylla	hydrangea		live	petal
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Hydrangea macrophylla	Hydrangea	Cornales: Hydrangeaceae	Petal spotting of hydrangea flowers caused by Corynespora cassiicola: old pathogen - new disease, Leite, R.S. & Barreto, R.W., 2000	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cornales/Hydrangeaceae/Hydrangea macrophylla/	Hydrangea macrophylla	hydrangea		live	leaf
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Cucumis melo	Melon	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis melo/	Cucumis melo	melon		live	fruit
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph causes shot holes on live leaf			Cucumis melo	Melon	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / shot hole causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis melo/	Cucumis melo	melon		live	leaf
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Cucumis melo	Melon	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis melo/	Cucumis melo	melon		live	leaf
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live fruit			Cucumis sativus	Cucumber, Gherkin	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis sativus/	Cucumis sativus	cucumber, gherkin		live	fruit
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph causes shot holes on live leaf			Cucumis sativus	Cucumber, Gherkin	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / shot hole causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis sativus/	Cucumis sativus	cucumber, gherkin		live	leaf
Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph (effuse)		effuse colony of Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Cucumis sativus	Cucumber, Gherkin	Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Corynesporascaceae/Corynespora cassiicola/	Corynespora cassiicola	cucumber leaf blotch (causative organism)		effuse	colony	Corynespora dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Cucurbitales/Cucurbitaceae/Cucumis sativus/	Cucumis sativus	cucumber, gherkin		live	leaf

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
Leite, R.S. & Barreto, R.W., 2000	Petal spotting of hydrangea flowers caused by Corynespora cassiicola: old pathogen - new disease	Mycologist Vol 14 (2): 80-83.
Moore, W.C., 1959	British Parasitic Fungi	430pp, Cambridge University Press

Corynespora cassiicola (Cucumber Leaf Blotch - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Corynespora cassiicola (Cucumber Leaf Blotch - 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))

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Cercospora melonis				Synonym

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Anamorphic Species	Corynespora cassiicola (Cucumber Leaf Blotch - causative organism)
Genus	Corynespora (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)
Family	CORYNESPORASCACEAE (a family of dematiaceous anamorphic ascomycetes)
Order	PLEOSPORALES (an order of ascomycetes and lichens)
Subclass	DOTHIDEOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of fungi)
Class	DOTHIDEOMYCETES (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)

Corynespora cassiicola is also a member of:
Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes - dematiaceous anamorphic fungi (via Corynespora)
Anamorphic fungi - mitosporic fungi (via Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes)
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Anamorphic fungi)
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 Corynespora cassiicola (Cucumber Leaf Blotch - causative organism)

Corynespora cassiicola (Cucumber Leaf Blotch - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PLEOSPORALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes
(dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

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

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Leite, R.S. & Barreto, R.W.	2000	Petal spotting of hydrangea flowers caused by Corynespora cassiicola: old pathogen - new disease	Mycologist Vol 14 (2): 80-83.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Corynespora cassiicola (Cucumber Leaf Blotch - causative organism):

PLEOSPORALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes
(dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

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

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