''Ainsworthia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
fungi
A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...
in the family
Chaetothyriaceae.
The genus was
circumscribed by
Augusto Chaves Batista and
Raffaele Ciferri in Sydowia Beih. vol.3 on page 4 in 1962.
The genus name of ''Ainsworthia'' is in honour of
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (1905–1998), who was a British mycologist and scientific historian.
Species
As accepted by
Species Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (Binomial nomenclature, scientific names) in the fungus Kingdom (biology), kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partn ...
;
* ''
Ainsworthia lecythidacearum''
* ''
Ainsworthia oblongotheca''
* ''
Ainsworthia psidii''
* ''
Ainsworthia roraimensis''
* ''
Ainsworthia smilacina''
* ''
Ainsworthia zanthoxyli''
Former species;
* ''A. morindae'' = ''
Phaeosaccardinula morindae'', Chaetothyriaceae
* ''A. negeriana'' = ''
Teichosporella negeriana'',
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes is the largest and most diverse class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises 11 orders 90 families, 1,300 genera and over 19,000 known species.
Wijayawardene et al. in 2020 added more orders to the class.
Traditionally, most of it ...
family
* ''A. seaveriana'' = ''
Phaeosaccardinula seaveriana'', Chaetothyriaceae
References
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Chaetothyriales
Eurotiomycetes genera
Taxa described in 1962
Taxa named by Augusto Chaves Batista