Brooksia
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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 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]
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Genus: | Brooksia Hansf.[1] |
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Brooksia tropicalis Hansf. |
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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.