Syringa L.
(lilacs)

Interactions where Syringa 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').

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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
		may be infected and damaged by			Arabis Mosaic virus	a phytopathogenic virus		Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Arabis Mosaic virus/	Arabis Mosaic virus	a phytopathogenic virus					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs								infects and damages
		may be infected and damaged by			Elm Mottle virus	a phytopathogenic virus		Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Elm Mottle virus/	Elm Mottle virus	a phytopathogenic virus					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs								infects and damages
		may be infected and damaged by			Lilac Ring Mottle virus	a phytopathogenic virus		Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Lilac Ring Mottle virus/	Lilac Ring Mottle virus	a phytopathogenic virus					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs								infects and damages
		may be infected and damaged by			Tobacco Rattle virus	a phytopathogenic virus		Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Tobacco Rattle virus/	Tobacco Rattle virus	a phytopathogenic virus					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs								infects and damages
branch (dead)		dead branch is decayed by erumpent, in small groups from bark crack apothecium			Tympanis ligustri	a discomycete	Helotiales: Tympanidaceae	Notes on British species of Tympanis (Leotiales) with T. prunicola new to Britain, Yao, Y.-J. & Spooner, B.M., 1996	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Tympanidaceae/Tympanis ligustri/	Tympanis ligustri	a discomycete		erumpent, in small groups from bark crack		apothecium	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		dead	branch				(1-5)	erumpent, in small groups from bark crack apothecium is saprobic on dead branch
bud (live)		live bud may contain caterpillar			Zeuzera pyrina	Leopard Moth	Lepidoptera: Cossidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Cossidae/Zeuzera pyrina/	Zeuzera pyrina	leopard moth				caterpillar	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	bud					caterpillar feeds within live bud
leaf-tip (live)		live leaf-tip is rolled by caterpillar			Gracillaria syringella	Lilac Leaf Miner, Common Slender	Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Gracillariidae/Gracillaria syringella/	Gracillaria syringella	lilac leaf miner, common slender				caterpillar	Foodplant / roller			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	leaf-tip				(late season)	caterpillar rolls live leaf-tip
leaf (live)		live leaf is grazed by caterpillar			Sphinx ligustri	Privet Hawk-moth	Lepidoptera: Sphingidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Sphingidae/Sphinx ligustri/	Sphinx ligustri	privet hawk-moth				caterpillar	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	leaf					caterpillar grazes on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is mined by gregarious caterpillar			Gracillaria syringella	Lilac Leaf Miner, Common Slender	Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Gracillariidae/Gracillaria syringella/	Gracillaria syringella	lilac leaf miner, common slender		gregarious		caterpillar	Foodplant / miner			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	leaf				(6-)	gregarious caterpillar mines live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is grazed by web-dwelling communal caterpillar			Malacosoma neustria	The Lackey	Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Lasiocampidae/Malacosoma neustria/	Malacosoma neustria	the lackey		communal		caterpillar	Foodplant / web feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	leaf					communal caterpillar feeds from web on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf may have larva			Dendrothrips ornatus	Privet Thrips	Thysanoptera: Thripidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Thripidae/Dendrothrips ornatus/	Dendrothrips ornatus	privet thrips				larva	Plant / resting place / on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	leaf				(7-8,11)	larva may be found on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf may have male			Dendrothrips ornatus	Privet Thrips	Thysanoptera: Thripidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Thripidae/Dendrothrips ornatus/	Dendrothrips ornatus	privet thrips				male	Plant / resting place / on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	leaf				(7,9,11)	male may be found on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf may have female			Dendrothrips ornatus	Privet Thrips	Thysanoptera: Thripidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Thysanoptera, Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Thysanoptera/Thripidae/Dendrothrips ornatus/	Dendrothrips ornatus	privet thrips				female	Plant / resting place / on		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		live	leaf				(4-5,7-9,11)	female may be found on live leaf
leaf (semicircular or oblong pieces of live)		semicircular or oblong pieces of live leaf is used to build or strengthen the nest by female			Megachile	leaf-cutter and mud bees	Hymenoptera: Megachilidae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Megachilidae/Megachile/	Megachile	leaf-cutter and mud bees				female	Plant / nest			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		semicircular or oblong pieces of live	leaf					female builds nest using semicircular or oblong pieces of live leaf
twig (dead, dry)		dead, dry twig is decayed by emergent acervulus of Gloeosporidiella coelomycetous anamorph			Gloeosporidiella turgida	a coelomycete	Helotiales: Dermateaceae	Two parasitic fungi on a new host, Syringa (Oleaceae), Constantinescu, O., Mel'nik, V.A. & Verkley, G.J.M., 2005	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Dermateaceae/Gloeosporidiella turgida/	Gloeosporidiella turgida	a coelomycete		emergent	acervulus	Gloeosporidiella coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / saprobe		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		dead, dry	twig					emergent acervulus of Gloeosporidiella coelomycetous anamorph is saprobic on dead, dry twig
wood (dead)		dead wood is decayed by fruitbody			Trametes ochracea	Ochre Bracket	Polyporales: Polyporaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Trametes ochracea/	Trametes ochracea	ochre bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		dead	wood					fruitbody is saprobic on dead wood
wood (fallen, decayed)		fallen, decayed wood is decayed by fruitbody			Byssomerulius corium	Netted Crust	Polyporales: Phanerochaetaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Polyporales/Phanerochaetaceae/Byssomerulius corium/	Byssomerulius corium	netted crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Syringa/	Syringa	lilacs		fallen, decayed	wood		Minor			fruitbody is saprobic on fallen, decayed wood

Author & Year	Title	Source
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
Constantinescu, O., Mel'nik, V.A. & Verkley, G.J.M., 2005	Two parasitic fungi on a new host, Syringa (Oleaceae)	Mycotaxon 94: 175-179.
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
Mound L.A., Morison, G.D., Pitkin, B.R. & Palmer, J.M., 1976	Thysanoptera	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 1, part 11, 79pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Yao, Y.-J. & Spooner, B.M., 1996	Notes on British species of Tympanis (Leotiales) with T. prunicola new to Britain	Kew Bulletin Vol 51 (1): 187-191.

Syringa (lilacs) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

OLEACEAE
(olives, privets, ashes, lilacs and forsythias)

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)

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Syringa vulgaris Lilac				Species		28 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Syringa (lilacs)
Family	OLEACEAE (olives, privets, ashes, lilacs and forsythias)
Order	LAMIALES (dead-nettles, eye-brights, foxgloves and speedwells)
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 Syringa (lilacs)

Syringa (lilacs) 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 Syringa (lilacs):

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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