Biology:Ainsworthia

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Ainsworthia
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Ainsworthia

Bat. & Cif. 1962

Ainsworthia is a genus of fungi in the family Chaetothyriaceae.[1]

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.[2]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;[3]

  • Ainsworthia lecythidacearum Bat., J.L. Bezerra & Peres (1964)
  • Ainsworthia oblongotheca A.A. Silva (1964)
  • Ainsworthia psidii Bat., J.L. Bezerra & Poroca (1966)
  • Ainsworthia roraimensis Bat. & Cavalc. (1966)
  • Ainsworthia smilacina Bat. & A.F. Vital (1962)
  • Ainsworthia zanthoxyli Bat. & C.A.A. Costa (1962)

Former species;

  • A. morindae (J.M. Mend.) Bat. (1962) = Phaeosaccardinula morindae, Chaetothyriaceae
  • A. negeriana (Sacc., Syd. & P. Syd.) Bat. & Cif. (1962) = Teichosporella negeriana, Dothideomycetes family
  • A. seaveriana (Toro) Bat. & Cif. (1962) = Phaeosaccardinula seaveriana, Chaetothyriaceae

References

  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp. 
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022. 
  3. "Ainsworthia - Search Page". Species Fungorum. http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp?strGenus=Ainsworthia. 

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