Abstract
A checklist is presented of ascomycetes belonging to class Sordariomycetes in Algeria. This group of fungi is represented in the country by at least 189 genera and 470 species. The list is based on bibliographical, thesis and herbaria online databases sources. This checklist is the first comprehensive species list fully dedicated to Algerian Sordariomycetes.
Highlights
Sordariomycetes is the second largest class of Ascomycota (Kirk et al 2008; Hyde et al.2013) that involves a highly varied range of fungi characterized mainly by perithecial ascomata and inoperculate unitunicate asci, Lumbsch and Huhndorf (2010) included 18 orders, 63 families and 947 genera, while Kirk et al (2008) included 15 orders, 64 families, 1119 genera and 10,564 species in Sordariomycetes
The Sordariomycetes have a ecumenical allocation and shelters mostly terrestrial taxa, several can be found in aquatic habitats (Hyde and Wong 2000; Samuels and Blackwell 2001; Cai et al 2006; Jones et al 2009, 2015; Pratibha et al 2014)
Sordariomycetes are usually isolated as endophytes from several plants (Keim et al 2014) many exist as saprobes involved in nutrient and decomposition cycling (Jaklitsch and Voglmayr 2012) as some taxa are fungicolous (Pei Gui et al 2000), some species produce a vast range of chemically assorted metabolites highly signigicant in medicinal and other biotechnological industries (Semenova et al 2012; Debbab et al 2013; Xu et al 2014) and other species of Sordariomycetes such as Beauveria bassiana, Trichoderma viride, T. harzianum are economically important biocontrol agents (Wraight et al.1998; Kaewchai et al 2009)
Summary
1* Laboratoire de Biologie des Sols, Faculté des Sciences Biologiques, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediène, BP 32 El Alia, Alger 16111, Algeria. Amrani S, Abo Nahas HH, Atta TA, Abdel-Azeem AM 2019 – Checklist of Algerian fungi – Part 4: Sordariomycetes (Ascomycota).
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