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UK Risk Register Details for Lonsdalea quercina

This record was last updated on 10/12/2021

Common Names

  • Shoot blight: oak

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced with vector or finds vector

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Non-squared wood

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Seeds
  • Cut flowers or branches
  • Non-squared wood
  • Bark
  • Firewood
  • insect vectors
  • leaves
  • Roundwood of oak with bark present
  • Woodchip

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 2
Impact [1 - 5] 3
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 6
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 30

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Pathway mitigations

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 1
Spread [1 - 5] 2
Impact [1 - 5] 3
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 3
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 15

Proposed Actions

Proposed Actions

Regulation

Deregulation

Management By Industry

Targeted Survey

PRA

Contingency Plan

Publicity

Research

Distribution and Pest Details

Distribution

Country / Territory Status Notes
Europe
United Kingdom Absent
North America
United States Present

Type of Pest

  • Bacterium

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Quercus (oak)

Major Hosts

  • Quercus agrifolia Nee
  • Quercus ilex L.
  • Quercus palustris Muenchh./Du Roi
  • Quercus pyrenaica Willd.
  • Quercus rubra L.
  • Quercus shumardii Buckl.
  • Quercus wislizenii A.Dc.

Threats to Protected Cultivation

  • N/A

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Broadleaved

Further Information

PRA Availability

PRA not available

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Not currently listed

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action on interceptions.

General Comments

Bacterial pathogen of red oaks in the USA. Current mitigations reduce the risk of introductions.

Risk Records for this Pest