Sclerotinia trifoliorum Erikss.
(a discomycete)

Interactions where Sclerotinia trifoliorum is the controlling partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see '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
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Anthyllis vulneraria	Kidney Vetch, Kidney-vetch, Ladies’ Fingers	Fabales: Fabaceae	Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Anthyllis vulneraria/	Anthyllis vulneraria	kidney vetch, kidney-vetch, ladies’ fingers		live		plant
apothecium		apothecium may be found among			FABOIDEAE	vetches, peas and beans	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete				apothecium	Plant / resting place / among			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Faboideae/	Faboideae	vetches, peas and beans							(9-11)
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			FABOIDEAE	vetches, peas and beans	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Faboideae/	Faboideae	vetches, peas and beans		live		plant
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Lathyrus	peas	Fabales: Fabaceae	Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Lathyrus/	Lathyrus	peas		live		plant
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Medicago	medicks	Fabales: Fabaceae	Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Medicago/	Medicago	medicks		live		plant
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Medicago sativa	Lucerne, Medick, Alfalfa	Fabales: Fabaceae	Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Medicago sativa/	Medicago sativa	lucerne, medick, alfalfa		live		plant
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Melilotus	melilots	Fabales: Fabaceae	Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Melilotus/	Melilotus	melilots		live		plant
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Trifolium	clovers	Fabales: Fabaceae	Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Trifolium/	Trifolium	clovers		live		plant
apothecium		apothecium may be found among			Trifolium pratense	Red Clover	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete				apothecium	Plant / resting place / among			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Trifolium pratense/	Trifolium pratense	red clover							(9-11)
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Trifolium pratense	Red Clover	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Trifolium pratense/	Trifolium pratense	red clover		live		plant
apothecium		apothecium may be found among			Trifolium repens	White Clover, Dutch Clover	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete				apothecium	Plant / resting place / among			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Trifolium repens/	Trifolium repens	white clover, dutch clover							(9-11)
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Trifolium repens	White Clover, Dutch Clover	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Trifolium repens/	Trifolium repens	white clover, dutch clover		live		plant
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Vicia	vetches	Fabales: Fabaceae	Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia/	Vicia	vetches		live		plant
apothecium		apothecium may be found among			Onobrychis viciifolia	Sainfoin	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete				apothecium	Plant / resting place / among			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Onobrychis viciifolia/	Onobrychis viciifolia	sainfoin							(9-11)
sclerotium (buried)		buried sclerotium infects and damages live plant			Onobrychis viciifolia	Sainfoin	Fabales: Fabaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete		buried		sclerotium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Onobrychis viciifolia/	Onobrychis viciifolia	sainfoin		live		plant

Interactions where Sclerotinia trifoliorum is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see '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
sclerotium		sclerotium is parasitised by pycnidium of Coniothyrium coelomycetous anamorph			Coniothyrium minitans	a coelomycete	Pleosporales: Montagnulaceae	Fungi of the South East England, Dennis, R.W.G., 1995 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Montagnulaceae/Coniothyrium minitans/	Coniothyrium minitans	a coelomycete			pycnidium	Coniothyrium coelomycetous anamorph	Fungus / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Sclerotinia trifoliorum/	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	a discomycete			sclerotium					pycnidium of Coniothyrium coelomycetous anamorph parasitises sclerotium

Sclerotinia trifoliorum (a discomycete) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Sclerotinia trifoliorum (a discomycete) may also 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))

Author & Year	Title	Source
Dennis, R.W.G., 1995	Fungi of the South East England	383pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 246pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M., 1991	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 1084.

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Sclerotinia trifoliorum var fabae a discomycete				Variety		2 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Sclerotinia trifoliorum (a discomycete)
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 trifoliorum 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 trifoliorum (a discomycete)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Williams, M.A.J. & Spooner, B.M.	1991	Sclerotinia trifoliorum	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 1084.

Sclerotinia trifoliorum (a discomycete) may also 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))

General Literature

Production of apothecia of Sclerotinia trifoliorum in the laboratory

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Sclerotinia trifoliorum (a discomycete):

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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