Hookeria

{{Short description|Genus of mosses}}

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| image = Hookeria lucens (c, 144712-474717) 5581.JPG

| image_caption = Hookeria lucens

| taxon = Hookeria

| authority = Sm., 1808

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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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.{{cite book|author1=Smith, A. J. E. |author2=Smith, Ruth |title=The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2004|pages=698|isbn=9780521546720|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XpzqhP7R0QC&pg=PA698}}

There are nine species recognised in the genus Hookeria, the most broadly distributed being Hookeria lucens and Hookeria acutifolia.{{Cite journal |last=Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS |last2=Pisarenko |first2=Olga Yu. |last3=Bakalin |first3=Vadim A. |last4=Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS |last5=Ignatova |first5=Elena A. |last6=Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology |date=2020 |title=Hookeria acutifolia (Hookeriaceae, Bryophyta), a new species for the moss flora of Russia |url=http://www.geobotanica.ru/bp/2020_09_01/pisarenko_2020.html |journal=Botanica Pacifica |doi=10.17581/bp.2020.09104|doi-access=free }}