Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz
(Wild Service-tree)

Interactions where Sorbus torminalis 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 parasitised by			Phyllactinia mali	a conidial powdery mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Phyllactinia mali/	Phyllactinia mali	a conidial powdery mildew					Foodplant / parasite		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree								parasitises
		may be infected and damaged by			Armillaria	honey fungi	Agaricales: Physalacriaceae	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Physalacriaceae/Armillaria/	Armillaria	honey fungi					Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree								infects and damages
leaf		leaf is galled by			Sappaphis aucupariae	an aphid	Hemiptera: Aphididae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Sappaphis aucupariae/	Sappaphis aucupariae	an aphid					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree			leaf		Sole			causes gall of leaf
leaf (fading)		fading leaf is spotted by epiphyllous, few, mainly central in spot pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph			Phyllosticta sorbi var torminalis	a coelomycete	Botryosphaeriales: Phyllostictaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Botryosphaeriales/Phyllostictaceae/Phyllosticta sorbi var. torminalis/	Phyllosticta sorbi var. torminalis	a coelomycete		epiphyllous, few, mainly central in spot	pycnidium	Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree		fading	leaf				(6-8)	epiphyllous, few, mainly central in spot pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on fading leaf
shoot (decaying)		decaying shoot may contain larva			Involvulus icosandriae	Apple Twig Cutter, Twig Cutting Weevil, Twig-cutting Weevil	Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 Orthocerous Weevils, Morris, M.G., 1990	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Rhynchitidae/Involvulus icosandriae/	Involvulus icosandriae	apple twig cutter, twig cutting weevil, twig-cutting weevil				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree		decaying	shoot					larva feeds within decaying shoot
trunk (dead)		dead trunk is decayed by fruitbody			Inonotus hispidus	Shaggy Bracket	Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree		dead	trunk					fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk
trunk (live)		live trunk is parasitised by fruitbody			Inonotus hispidus	Shaggy Bracket	Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree		live	trunk					fruitbody parasitises live trunk
twig (dead)		dead twig is decayed by long covered, but eventually erumpent through fissure pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph			Diaporthe eres	a pyrenomycete	Diaporthales: Diaporthaceae	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Diaporthales/Diaporthaceae/Diaporthe eres/	Diaporthe eres	a pyrenomycete		long covered, but eventually erumpent through fissure	pycnidium	Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree		dead	twig					long covered, but eventually erumpent through fissure pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead twig
wood		wood 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/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree			wood		Rare			superficial stroma is saprobic on wood

Author & Year	Title	Source
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Moore, W.C., 1959	British Parasitic Fungi	430pp, Cambridge University Press
Morris, M.G., 1990	Orthocerous Weevils	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5 Part 16, 108pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Reid, D.A., 1978	Unusual hosts for some common British fungi	Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. Vol 12 (2): 87-89.
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)
Whalley, A.J.S. & Watling, R., 1980	Daldinia concentrica versus Daldinia vernicosa	TBMS Vol 74 (2): 399-406.

Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service-tree) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Sorbus
(whitebeams)

ROSACEAE
(roses and fruit trees)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Trees with bark of low pH
(acid-barked trees)

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

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service-tree)
Genus	Sorbus (whitebeams)
Family	ROSACEAE (roses and fruit trees)
Order	ROSALES (roses, elms, nettles, hops, buckthorns and figs)
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 Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service-tree)

Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service-tree) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Sorbus
(whitebeams)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service-tree):

Sorbus
(whitebeams)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

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

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