Sordaria Ces. & De Not., 1863

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Sordaria Ces. & De Not. , Commentario della Società Crittogamologica Italiana 1 (4): 225 (1863)

Index Fungorum number: IF 5061

Type species: Sordaria fimicola (Roberge ex Desm.) Ces. & De Not., Commentario della Società Crittogamologica Italiana 1 (4): 226 (1863)

Notes: Sordaria was introduced with the type species S. fimicola , and 264 records are listed in Index Fungorum (2023), but only 23 species have available sequence data ( Huang et al. 2021). The sexual morph of Sordaria was characterized by having sub-immersed to superficial, perithecioid, coriaceous ascomata, contain with cylindrical paraphyses, oblong, upright to slightly curved asci, with a lobate pedicel and distinct apical ring, with eight-spored, uniseriate, ellipsoidal to ovoid, verruculose ascospore, immature ascospore enclosed in a hyaline gelatinous sheath, however, sometimes thick and conspicuous to even difficult to detect ( Ivanová et al. 2015; Phukhamsakda et al. 2020). Species of Sordaria are commonly found in dung, soil, and seed pods ( Furtado 1969; Watanabe 1989; Mungai et al. 2012). Notably, the filamentous ascomycete Sordaria macrospora was considered a model organism to study the molecular mechanisms that regulate fruiting bodies’ development ( Teichert et al. 2020).