Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica Mill. ex Münchh.
(London plane)

Interactions where Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		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	Summary
		is decayed by superficial stroma			Daldinia concentrica	King Alfred’s Cake, Cramp-ball	Xylariales: Xylariaceae	Daldinia concentrica versus Daldinia vernicosa, Whalley, A.J.S. & Watling, R., 1980	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Xylariales/Xylariaceae/Daldinia concentrica/	Daldinia concentrica	King Alfred’s cake, cramp-ball		superficial		stroma	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane					Rare			superficial stroma is saprobic on
bark (branch) (dead, fallen)		dead, fallen bark (branch) is decayed by immersed, becoming erumpent perithecium			Melanospora longisetosa	an ascomycete	Melanosporales: Ceratostomataceae	Melanospora pegleri, a new species from fallen Laurus and other leaves in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., Henrici, A. & Kirk, P.M., 1999	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Melanosporales/Ceratostomataceae/Melanospora longisetosa/	Melanospora longisetosa	an ascomycete		immersed, becoming erumpent		perithecium	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane		dead, fallen	bark (branch)			Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced		immersed, becoming erumpent perithecium is saprobic on dead, fallen bark (branch)
brnach (small) (dead)		dead brnach (small) is decayed by numerous, gregarious, immersed, raising the epidermis, subplurilocular stroma of Cytospora coelomycetous anamorph			Cytospora platani	a stromatic coelomycete	Diaporthales: Valsaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Valsaceae/Cytospora platani/	Cytospora platani	a stromatic coelomycete		numerous, gregarious, immersed, raising the epidermis, subplurilocular	stroma	Cytospora coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane		dead	brnach (small)				(4)	numerous, gregarious, immersed, raising the epidermis, subplurilocular stroma of Cytospora coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead brnach (small)
leaf (fading, attached)		fading, attached leaf may be infected and damaged by acervulus of Discula coelomycetous anamorph			Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete	Diaporthales: Gnomoniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Fungal foes in your garden no 45: Plane anthracnose, Fox, R.T.V., 2000	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Gnomoniaceae/Apiognomonia errabunda/	Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete			acervulus	Discula coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane		fading, attached	leaf		Minor		(8-9)	acervulus of Discula coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages fading, attached leaf
leaf (fallen, dead, overwintered)		fallen, dead, overwintered leaf is decayed by hypophyllous, mostly immersed perithecium			Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete	Diaporthales: Gnomoniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Fungal foes in your garden no 45: Plane anthracnose, Fox, R.T.V., 2000	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Gnomoniaceae/Apiognomonia errabunda/	Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete		hypophyllous, mostly immersed		perithecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane		fallen, dead, overwintered	leaf		Minor		(3-5)	hypophyllous, mostly immersed perithecium is saprobic on fallen, dead, overwintered leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by			Erysiphe platani	Plane Mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe platani/	Erysiphe platani	plane mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane		live	leaf					parasitises live leaf
shoot (dead)		dead shoot is decayed by acervulus of Discula coelomycetous anamorph			Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete	Diaporthales: Gnomoniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Fungal foes in your garden no 45: Plane anthracnose, Fox, R.T.V., 2000	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Gnomoniaceae/Apiognomonia errabunda/	Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete			acervulus	Discula coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane		dead	shoot		Minor		(8-9)	acervulus of Discula coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead shoot
twig (cankered, attached)		cankered, attached twig may be infected and damaged by acervulus of Discula coelomycetous anamorph			Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete	Diaporthales: Gnomoniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Fungal foes in your garden no 45: Plane anthracnose, Fox, R.T.V., 2000	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Gnomoniaceae/Apiognomonia errabunda/	Apiognomonia errabunda	a pyrenomycete			acervulus	Discula coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica/	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica	London plane		cankered, attached	twig		Minor		(8-9)	acervulus of Discula coelomycetous anamorph infects and damages cankered, attached twig

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
Fox, R.T.V., 2000	Fungal foes in your garden no 45: Plane anthracnose	Mycologist Vol 14 (2): 88.
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Hawksworth, D.L., Henrici, A. & Kirk, P.M., 1999	Melanospora pegleri, a new species from fallen Laurus and other leaves in the British Isles	Kew Bulletin Vol 54 (3): 795-799.
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
Whalley, A.J.S. & Watling, R., 1980	Daldinia concentrica versus Daldinia vernicosa	TBMS Vol 74 (2): 399-406.

Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica (London plane) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Platanus
(plane trees)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species hybrid	Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica (London plane)
Genus	Platanus (plane trees)
Family	PLATANACEAE (plane trees)
Order	PROTEALES (plane trees and proteas)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica (London plane)

Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica (London plane) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Platanus occidentalis x orientalis = P. x hispanica (London plane):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs
(endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal trees and shrubs)

Broadleaved trees and shrubs
(broadleaved trees and shrubs)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Endomycorrhizal plants
(plants that form endomycorrhiza)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

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