''Brooksia'' is a
genus of
fungi in the class
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes is the largest and most diverse class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises 11 orders 90 families, 1300 genera and over 19,000 known species. Traditionally, most of its members were included in the loculoascomycetes, which is not par ...
. 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
Frederick Tom Brooks CBE FRS (17 December 1882 – 11 March 1952) was an English botanist and Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge.
Life
Brooks was born in Wells, Somerset the son of Edward Brooks and attended Sexey's School, ...
(1882 – 1952), an English botanist and Professor of Botany at the
University of Cambridge.
The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
by
Clifford Gerald Hansford in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales Vol.81 on page 32 in 1956.
See also
*
List of Dothideomycetes genera ''incertae sedis''
References
External links
*
Brooksia' at
Index Fungorum
Enigmatic Dothideomycetes taxa
Dothideomycetes genera
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