Ainoa

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Ainoa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Baeomycetales
Family: Baeomycetaceae
Genus: Ainoa
Lumbsch & I.Schmitt (2001)
Type species
Ainoa geochroa
(Körb.) Lumbsch & I.Schmitt (2001)
Species



Ainoa is a genus of lichens in the family Baeomycetaceae. The genus contains two species: , and the type, . The genus was circumscribed in 2001 by H. Thorsten Lumbsch and Imke Schmitt to contain the two species, which were formerly placed in genus Trapelia.[1] A third species, from eastern North America, was added to the genus in 2015.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Schmitt, Imke; Döring, Heidi; Wedin, Mats (2001). "ITS sequence data suggest variability of ascus types and support ontogenetic characters as phylogenetic discriminators in the Agyriales (Ascomycota)". Mycological Research. 105 (3): 265–274. doi:10.1017/S0953756201003483.
  2. ^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Lendemer, James C. (2015). "A revision of the saxicolous, esorediate species of Ainoa and Trapelia (Baeomycetaceae and Trapeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) in North America, with the description of two new species". The Bryologist. 118 (4): 385–399. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.1.385.


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