Fungalpedia – Note 924, Sporocadaceae

 

Sporocadaceae. Corda.

Citation when using this data Manawasinghe IS et al. 2022 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Amphisphaeriales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Corda (1842) introduced Sporocadaceae with Sporocadus as the type genus, and this was re-validated by Jaklitsch et al. (2016). It includes genera that are typically appendaged-bearing coelomycetes with saprobic, endophytic, or foliar pathogenic lifestyles (Nag Raj 1993, Tanaka et al. 2011, Hyde et al. 2020). Wijayawardene et al. (2020) included 33 genera in Sporocadaceae. 

Type genus: Sporocadus Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 3: 23 (1839).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Sporocadaceae.

 

References

Corda A. 1842 – Icones fungorum hucusque cognitorum. 5, 1–92.

Hyde KD, de Silva NI, Jeewon R, Bhat JD et al. 2020a – AJOM new records and collections of fungi: 1–100. Asian Journal of Mycology 3: 22–294.

Jaklitsch WM, Gardiennet A, Voglmayr H. 2016 – Resolution of morphology-based taxonomic delusions: Acrocordiella, Basiseptospora, Blogiascospora, Clypeosphaeria, Hymenopleella, Lepteutypa, Pseudapiospora, Requienella, Seiridium and Strickeria. Persoonia 37, 82–105.

Nag Raj TR. 1993 – Coelomycetous anamorphs with appendage-bearing conidia Mycologue publications, Canada.

Tanaka K, Endo M, Hirayama K, Okane I et al. 2011 – Phylogeny of Discosia and Seimatosporium, and introduction of Adisciso and Immersidiscosia genera nova. Persoonia 26, 85–98.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT, Tedersoo L et al. 2020 – Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 11, 1060–1456.

 

Entry by

Ishara Sandeepani Manawasinghe, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, PR of China

 

Published online 2 October 2025

Back to Glossary Index Page