Sclerotinia homoeocarpa F.T. Benn.
(Dollar Spot - causative organism)

Interactions where Sclerotinia homoeocarpa 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
		infects and damages patchily dead plant			POACEAE	grasses, couch	Poales	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia homoeocarpa/	Sclerotinia homoeocarpa	dollar spot (causative organism)					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/	Poaceae	grasses, couch		patchily dead	plant				(early autumn)
		causes spots on bleached leaf			POACEAE	grasses, couch	Poales	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia homoeocarpa/	Sclerotinia homoeocarpa	dollar spot (causative organism)					Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/	Poaceae	grasses, couch		bleached	leaf				(early autumn)
		infects and damages patchily dead plant			Festuca rubra agg.	red fescues	Poales: Poaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia homoeocarpa/	Sclerotinia homoeocarpa	dollar spot (causative organism)					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Festuca rubra agg./	Festuca rubra agg.	red fescues		patchily dead	plant		Major		(early autumn)
		causes spots on bleached leaf			Festuca rubra agg.	red fescues	Poales: Poaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia homoeocarpa/	Sclerotinia homoeocarpa	dollar spot (causative organism)					Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Festuca rubra agg./	Festuca rubra agg.	red fescues		bleached	leaf		Major		(early autumn)

Author & Year	Title	Source
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins

Sclerotinia homoeocarpa (Dollar Spot - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Sclerotinia homoeocarpa (Dollar Spot - causative organism) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Sclerotinia
(a genus of discomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

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

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Sclerotinia homoeocarpa (Dollar Spot - causative organism)
Genus	Sclerotinia (a genus of discomycetes)
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)

Sclerotinia homoeocarpa is also a member of:
Discomycetes - discomycete fungi (via Helotiales)
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 Sclerotinia homoeocarpa (Dollar Spot - causative organism)

Sclerotinia homoeocarpa (Dollar Spot - 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)

Discomycetes
(discomycete fungi)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Sclerotinia homoeocarpa (Dollar Spot - causative organism):

Sclerotinia
(a genus of discomycetes)

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)

Discomycetes
(discomycete fungi)

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

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