Phacellium episphaerium (Desm.) U. Braun
(a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus)

Interactions where Phacellium episphaerium 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
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale)		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Stellaria alsine	Bog Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		live	leaf
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (whitish, greyish or pale)		whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live stem			Stellaria alsine	Bog Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria alsine/	Stellaria alsine	bog stitchwort		live	stem
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale)		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Stellaria graminea	Lesser Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998 Phacellium sorbi (Peck) comb. nov. (Hyphomycetes), new to Britain from leaf spots on Sorbus aucuparia, Spooner, B., 2008	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria graminea/	Stellaria graminea	lesser stitchwort		live	leaf
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (whitish, greyish or pale)		whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live stem			Stellaria graminea	Lesser Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998 Phacellium sorbi (Peck) comb. nov. (Hyphomycetes), new to Britain from leaf spots on Sorbus aucuparia, Spooner, B., 2008	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria graminea/	Stellaria graminea	lesser stitchwort		live	stem
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale)		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Stellaria holostea	Greater Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria holostea/	Stellaria holostea	greater stitchwort		live	leaf
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (whitish, greyish or pale)		whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live stem			Stellaria holostea	Greater Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria holostea/	Stellaria holostea	greater stitchwort		live	stem
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale)		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Stellaria media	Common Chickweed	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria media/	Stellaria media	common chickweed		live	leaf
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (whitish, greyish or pale)		whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live stem			Stellaria media	Common Chickweed	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria media/	Stellaria media	common chickweed		live	stem
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale)		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Stellaria nemorum	Wood Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998 Phacellium sorbi (Peck) comb. nov. (Hyphomycetes), new to Britain from leaf spots on Sorbus aucuparia, Spooner, B., 2008	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria nemorum/	Stellaria nemorum	wood stitchwort		live	leaf
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (whitish, greyish or pale)		whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live stem			Stellaria nemorum	Wood Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998 Phacellium sorbi (Peck) comb. nov. (Hyphomycetes), new to Britain from leaf spots on Sorbus aucuparia, Spooner, B., 2008	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria nemorum/	Stellaria nemorum	wood stitchwort		live	stem
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale)		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf			Stellaria palustris	Marsh Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		mainly hypophyllous, whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria palustris/	Stellaria palustris	marsh stitchwort		live	leaf
Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph (whitish, greyish or pale)		whitish, greyish or pale synnema of Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live stem			Stellaria palustris	Marsh Stitchwort	Caryophyllales: Caryophyllaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Phacellium episphaerium/	Phacellium episphaerium	a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus		whitish, greyish or pale	synnema	Phacellium dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Caryophyllales/Caryophyllaceae/Stellaria palustris/	Stellaria palustris	marsh stitchwort		live	stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Spooner, B., 2008	Phacellium sorbi (Peck) comb. nov. (Hyphomycetes), new to Britain from leaf spots on Sorbus aucuparia	Field Mycology Vol 9 (4): 121-125.

Phacellium episphaerium (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Ramularia
(a genus of plant-pathogenic anamorphic hyphomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Phacellium episphaerium (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus) 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	Phacellium episphaerium (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus)
Species	Ramularia episphaeria
Genus	Ramularia (a genus of plant-pathogenic anamorphic hyphomycetes)
Family	MYCOSPHAERELLACEAE (a family of ascomycetes and lichens)
Order	CAPNODIALES (sooty moulds)
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)

Phacellium episphaerium is also a member of:
Hyphomycetes - moulds (via Ramularia)
Anamorphic fungi - mitosporic fungi (via 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 Phacellium episphaerium (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus)

Phacellium episphaerium (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Ramularia
(a genus of plant-pathogenic anamorphic hyphomycetes)

MYCOSPHAERELLACEAE
(a family of ascomycetes and lichens)

CAPNODIALES
(sooty moulds)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Hyphomycetes
(moulds)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Phacellium episphaerium (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus):

Ramularia
(a genus of plant-pathogenic anamorphic hyphomycetes)

MYCOSPHAERELLACEAE
(a family of ascomycetes and lichens)

CAPNODIALES
(sooty moulds)

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Hyphomycetes
(moulds)

Anamorphic fungi
(mitosporic fungi)

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

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