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Genus: | Ainsworthia Bat. & Cif. 1962
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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]
As accepted by Species Fungorum;[3]
Former species;