Ainsworthia

Ainsworthia is a genus of fungi 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;
 * Ainsworthia lecythidacearum
 * Ainsworthia oblongotheca
 * Ainsworthia psidii
 * Ainsworthia roraimensis
 * Ainsworthia smilacina
 * Ainsworthia zanthoxyli

Former species;
 * A. morindae = Phaeosaccardinula morindae, Chaetothyriaceae
 * A. negeriana = Teichosporella negeriana, Dothideomycetes family
 * A. seaveriana = Phaeosaccardinula seaveriana, Chaetothyriaceae