Cainia Arx & E. Müll., Acta bot. neerl. 4(1): 111 (1955)

MycoBank number: MB 719; Index Fungorum number: IF 719; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00688; 5 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 4 species with sequence data.

Type species – Cainia graminis (Niessl) Arx & E. Müll.

Notes – The genus was placed in a distinct family because of its longitudinal germ slits in the ascospores and the complex ascus ring comprising a series of rings (Krug 1978). Senanayake et al. (2015) designated a reference specimen for the type Cainia graminis and provided phylogenetic placement to accommodate genera in Cainiaceae.

Species