Brooksia

Brooksia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Subdivision:
Pezizomycotina
Class:
Dothideomycetes
Order:
incertae sedis
Family:
incertae sedis
Genus:
Brooksia

Hansf.
Type species
Brooksia tropicalis
Hansf.
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).

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.

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

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