# List of sweetgum diseases

The following is a list of diseases of sweetgum (Liquidambar spp.).

## Bacterial diseases

Bacterial diseases :
| Bacterial canker | Bacterium (unidentified) |
| Dieback and leaf scorch | Xylella fastidiosa |

## Fungal diseases

Fungal diseases :
| Annosum root rot | Heterobasidion annosum Spiniger meineckellus [anamorph] |
| Armillaria root rot Shoestring root rot | Armillaria mellea Armillaria tabescens = Clitocybe tabescens |
| Bleeding canker Bleeding necrosis Botryosphaeria canker | Botryosphaeria dothidea Fusicoccum aesculi [anamorph] Botryosphaeria disrupta Botryosphaeria obtusa Sphaeropsis spp. [anamorph] Botryosphaeria rhodina Botryosphaeria ribis Fusicoccum spp. [anamorph] |
| Canker rots | Cerrena unicolor Inonotus hispidus |
| Cylindrocladium root rot and blight | Calonectria kyotensis Cylindrocladium scoparium [anamorph] |
| Endothia canker | Endothia gyrosa Endothiella gyrosa [anamorph] |
| Fusarium canker | Fusarium solani |
| Hymenochaete canker | Hymenochaete agglutinans |
| Leaf gall | Synchytrium liquidambaris |
| Leaf spots | Cercospora liquidambaris Cercospora tuberculans Cladosporium spp. Dicarpella georgiana Discosia artocreas Apiognomonia errabunda Discula umbrinella [anamorph] Gnomonia petiolorum Macrophoma spp. Monochaetia spp. Peltella spp. Phyllosticta spp. Septoria liquidambaris Stigmina liquidambaris Tubakia dryina |
| Nectria canker | Nectria spp. |
| Phymatotrichum root rot Texas root rot | Phymatotrichopsis omnivora = Phymatotrichum omnivorum |
| Phytophtora collar rot and bleeding canker | Phytophthora cactorum |
| Rhizoctonia root rot | Rhizoctonia solani |
| Thread blight | Corticium stevensii |
| Tubercularia canker | Nectria cinnabarina Tubercularia vulgaris [anamorph] |
| Wood rots | Bjerkandera adusta Candelobrochaete langioisii Ceriporia xylostromatoides Climacodon pulcherrimus Climacodon septentrionalis Coriolopsis rigida Datronia scutellata Fomes fasciatus Fomitopsis spraguei Ganoderma applanatum Ganoderma lucidum Globiformes graveolens Gloeocystidiellum porosum Hericium erinaceus Inonotus ludovicianus Lentinus tigrinus Oxyporus latemarginatus Oxyporus populinus Perenniporia fraxinea Phellinus gilvus Pleurotus dryinus Pleurotus ostreatus R. lineatus R. ulmarius Schizophyllum commune Spongipellis unicolor Steccherinum ochraceum Trametes versicolor Trichaptum sector Tyromyces fissilis Tyromyces calkinsii Other basidiomycetes |
| Wood stains | Ceratocystis coerulescens Ceratocystis moniliformis Chalara sp. [anamorph] Fusarium moniliforme Fusarium solani Graphium rigidum Graphium rubrum Lasiodiplodia theobromae Leptographium microsporum Ophiostoma piliferum Sporothrix sp. [anamorph] Ophiostoma pluriannulatum Chalara sp.? [anamorph] Tubeufia pezizula Helicoma muelleri [anamorph] |

## Miscellaneous diseases and disorders

Miscellaneous diseases and disorders :
| Leader dieback | unknown cause |
| Sweetgum blight | unknown cause (drought ?) |

## Nematodes, parasitic

Nematodes, parasitic :
| Lance | Hoplolaimus galeatus |
| Lesion | Pratylenchus sp. Pratylenchus penetrans |
| Root knot | Meloidogyne sp. |
| Sheath | Hemicycliophora sp. |
| Spiral | Helicotylenchus sp. |
| Stubby root | Trichodorus sp. |
| Stunt | Tylenchorynchus sp. |