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).