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Hookeria
Sign in to saveHookeria is a genus of mainly tropical mosses. It was defined by James Edward Smith in 1808 and named for William Jackson Hooker.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 187
- With media
- 140
- Family
- Hookeriaceae
- Collections
- IE-UNAM, TENN, MEL, US, MU, WIS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, India, Germany, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hookeriaceae
- Image
- Hookeria lucens (c, 144712-474717) 5581.JPG
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- taxon name
- Hookeria
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Hookeria
- Commons category
- Hookeria
- taxon common name
- 油藓属
- taxonomic type
- Hookeria lucens
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hookeria is a genus of mainly tropical mosses. It was defined by James Edward Smith in 1808 and named for William Jackson Hooker.
There are nine species recognised in the genus Hookeria, the most broadly distributed being Hookeria lucens and Hookeria acutifolia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hookeria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.