Physoderma alfalfae (Lagerh.) Karling
(Crown Wart Disease Of Lucerne - causative organism)

Interactions where Physoderma alfalfae 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
		causes gall of live, conspicously warted bud			Medicago sativa	Lucerne, Medick, Alfalfa	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi, Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002	/Fungi/Chytridiomycota/Chytridiomycetes/Blastocladiales/Physodermataceae/Physoderma alfalfae/	Physoderma alfalfae	crown wart disease of lucerne (causative organism)					Foodplant / gall		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Medicago sativa/	Medicago sativa	lucerne, medick, alfalfa		live, conspicously warted	bud
		causes gall of live, conspicously warted stem			Medicago sativa	Lucerne, Medick, Alfalfa	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi, Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002	/Fungi/Chytridiomycota/Chytridiomycetes/Blastocladiales/Physodermataceae/Physoderma alfalfae/	Physoderma alfalfae	crown wart disease of lucerne (causative organism)					Foodplant / gall		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Medicago sativa/	Medicago sativa	lucerne, medick, alfalfa		live, conspicously warted	stem
		causes gall of live, conspicously warted stipule			Medicago sativa	Lucerne, Medick, Alfalfa	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi, Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002	/Fungi/Chytridiomycota/Chytridiomycetes/Blastocladiales/Physodermataceae/Physoderma alfalfae/	Physoderma alfalfae	crown wart disease of lucerne (causative organism)					Foodplant / gall		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Medicago sativa/	Medicago sativa	lucerne, medick, alfalfa		live, conspicously warted	stipule
resting sporangium		resting sporangium causes gall of live, conspicously warted, rudimentary leaf			Medicago sativa	Lucerne, Medick, Alfalfa	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi, Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002	/Fungi/Chytridiomycota/Chytridiomycetes/Blastocladiales/Physodermataceae/Physoderma alfalfae/	Physoderma alfalfae	crown wart disease of lucerne (causative organism)				resting sporangium	Foodplant / gall		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Medicago sativa/	Medicago sativa	lucerne, medick, alfalfa		live, conspicously warted, rudimentary	leaf

Author & Year	Title	Source
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002	British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi	AIDGAP Keys, 325pp, Field Studies Council

Physoderma alfalfae (Crown Wart Disease Of Lucerne - causative organism) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Physoderma alfalfae (Crown Wart Disease Of Lucerne - 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:

Species	Physoderma alfalfae (Crown Wart Disease Of Lucerne - causative organism)
Genus	Physoderma (a genus of chytridiomycete fungi)
Family	PHYSODERMATACEAE (a family of chytridiomycete fungi)
Order	BLASTOCLADIALES (an order of chytridiomycete fungi)
Class	CHYTRIDIOMYCETES (chytridomycete fungi, chytrids)
Phylum	CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA (chytridomycete fungi, chytrids)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Physoderma alfalfae is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Chytridiomycota)
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 Physoderma alfalfae (Crown Wart Disease Of Lucerne - causative organism)

Physoderma alfalfae (Crown Wart Disease Of Lucerne - causative organism) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA
(chytridomycete fungi, chytrids)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Physoderma alfalfae (Crown Wart Disease Of Lucerne - causative organism):

Physoderma
(a genus of chytridiomycete fungi)

CHYTRIDIOMYCETES
(chytridomycete fungi, chytrids)

CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA
(chytridomycete fungi, chytrids)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

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