| Ainoa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Baeomycetales |
| Family: | Baeomycetaceae |
| Genus: | Ainoa Lumbsch & I.Schmitt (2001) |
| Type species | |
| Ainoa geochroa | |
| Species | |
Ainoa is a genus of lichens in the family Baeomycetaceae. The genus contains two species: A. mooreana, and the type, A. geochroa. 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, Ainoa bella from eastern North America, was added to the genus in 2015.[2]
The genus name of Ainoa is in honour of Aino Marjatta Henssen (1925–2011), who was a German lichenologist and systematist.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. S2CID 85927769.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.