Brooksia

Genus of fungi

Not to be confused with Brooksia, a genus of salps, Brookesia, a genus of chameleons, or Brookea, a genus of flowering plants in family Plantaginaceae

Brooksia

Scientific classification
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Fungi

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Ascomycota

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Pezizomycotina

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Dothideomycetes

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incertae sedis

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incertae sedis

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Brooksia

Hansf.[1]

Type species
Brooksia tropicalis

Hansf.

Brooksia is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis).[2]

The genus name of Brooksia is in honour of Frederick Tom Brooks (1882 – 1952), an English botanist and Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge.[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Clifford Gerald Hansford in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales Vol.81 on page 32 in 1956.

## See also[edit]

* List of Dothideomycetes genera incertae sedis

## References[edit]

1. ^ Hansford CG. (1956). "Australian Fungi. III. New species and revisions". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 81 (1): 23–51.
2. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota - 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
3. ^ 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.

## External links[edit]

* Brooksia at Index Fungorum

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q4919867
* Wikispecies: Brooksia (Dothideomycetes)
* EoL: 64764
* Fungorum: 657
* GBIF: 3269738
* IRMNG: 1282770
* MycoBank: 657
* Open Tree of Life: 4082764

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