Rickia is a genus of fungi in the family Laboulbeniaceae.

[2] The genus name of Rickia is in honour of Johann Rick (known in Portuguese as João Evangelista Rick) (1869–1946), who was an Austrian-Brazilian teacher, clergyman and Botanist (Mycology).

He taught Mathematics and Natural history between 1903-1915 at the Jesuit School in São Leopoldo, in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

[3] The genus was circumscribed by Fridiano Cavara in Malpighia vol.13 on page 182 in 1899.

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