Class Sordariomycetes
[pyrenomycetes]
These fungi are also known as pyrenomycetes (= fire-fungi) and perithecial ascomycetes. A perithecium (= surrounding-case) is a flask-like container for the asci and spore production. Many of these fungi have the perithecia embedded in a black stroma (= bed covering). Apparently the appearance of these small black lumps relates to the genus name Sordaria, for which Tom Volk says: Sord means 'dirt' (like sordid) and aria means 'that which is.' The class contains 3 subclasses and 18 orders. Classification follows Lumbsch and Huhndorf (2010) [now out of date].
- Subclass Hypocreomycetidae
- Coronophorales (5 families)
- Hypocreales (7 families)
- Melanosporales (1 family)
- Microascales (3 families)
- Uncertain placement (2 families and 7 genera)
- Subclass Sordariomycetidae
- Boliniales (1 family)
- Calosphaeriales (2 families)
- Chaetosphaeriales (1 family)
- Coniochaetales (1 family)
- Diaporthales (10 families)
- Magnaporthales (1 family)
- Ophiostomatales (2 families)
- Sordariales (3 families)
- Uncertain placement (4 families and many genera)
- Subclass Xylariomycetidae
- Xylariales (6 families)
- Uncertain placement (9 genera)
- Sordariomycetes, orders with uncertain placement
- Koralionastetales (1 family)
- Lulworthiales (2 families)
- Meliolales (2 families)
- Phyllachorales (2 families)
- Trichosphaeriales (1 family)
- Uncertain placement (4 families and many genera)
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Sordariomycetes , Myconet 1: 10 (1997). Type: Sordaria Ces. & De Not. 1863.
- Taxonomy
- Index Fungorum has this Editiorial Comment: Type cited as 'Sordariales', see Arts 7.1, 10.7, 16.1(a). The type given by Index Fungorum is Sordaria as listed above.
- Description links
- Out of date: Tree of Life page for Sordariomycetes.
- Related links
- Lumbsch, H.T. & S.H. Huhndorf. 2010. Myconet Volume 14. Part One. Outline of Ascomycota—2009. Part Two. Notes on Ascomycete Systematics. Nos. 4751–5113. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences Number 1:1-64. PDF 1.13 MB
- Taxon links
- 90350 Sordariomycetes
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum