Taiwanascus is a genus of fungi in the family Niessliaceae. It was circumscribed in 2007 to contain the type, Taiwanascus tetrasporus, found growing on dead wood in Taipei, Taiwan. T. samuelsii, described from the Western Ghats, India, was added to the genus in 2013.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0