{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Bankera violascens (9737748490).jpg | image_caption = ''Bankera violascens'' | taxon = Bankera | authority = Coker & Beers ex Pouzar (1955) | type_species = ''Bankera fuligineoalba'' | type_species_authority = (J.C.Schmidt) Coker & Beers ex Pouzar (1955) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''B. cinerea''<br> ''B. fuligineoalba''<br> ''B. mollis''<br> ''B. violascens'' }}

'''''Bankera''''' is a genus of four species of tooth fungi in the family Bankeraceae. The genus was first circumscribed in 1951 by William Chambers Coker and Alma Holland Beers,<ref name="Coker 1951"/> but this publication was invalid according to the rules of botanical nomenclature. It was later published validly by Zdeněk Pouzar in 1955.<ref name="Pouzar 1955"/> The type species is ''B.&nbsp;fuligineoalba''. The genus is ectomycorrhizal with gymnosperms, usually with trees from the pine family.<ref name="Stalpers 1993"/>

Fruitbodies of ''Bankera'' species are fleshy, usually with a centrally-placed stipe, and greyish-brown spines on the hymenial undersurface. The texture of the flesh ranges from soft to tough, but it lacks the zones associated with some other Bankeraceae genera. Dried flesh often has a fenugreek odor. Spores range in shape from more or less spherical to ellipsoid, and are hyaline (translucent), with thin walls. In deposit, they are white. ''Bankera'' has a monomitic hyphal system with brownish to hyaline, inflated generative hyphae.<ref name="Stalpers 1993"/>

In 2013, based on molecular and morphological evidence, Richard Baird proposed that the type species ''Bankera fuligineoalba'' be transferred into the genus ''Phellodon'', as ''Phellodon fuligineoalbus''.<ref name="Baird 2013"/>

==Species==

*''Bankera cinerea'' *''Bankera fuligineoalba'' *''Bankera mollis'' *''Bankera violascens''

==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Baird 2013">{{cite journal |vauthors=Baird RE, Wallace LE, Baker G, Scruggs M |title=Stipitate hydnoid fungi of the temperate southeastern United States |journal=Fungal Diversity |year=2013 |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=41–114 |doi=10.1007/s13225-013-0261-6}}</ref>

<ref name="Coker 1951">{{cite book |vauthors=Coker WC, Beers AH |title=The Stipitate Hydnums of the Eastern United States |year=1951 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |page=33}}</ref>

<ref name="Pouzar 1955">{{cite journal |author=Pouzar Z. |title=Sbírejte losákovité houby! |journal=Ceská Mykologie |year=1955 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=95–96 |language=Czech}}</ref>

<ref name="Stalpers 1993">{{cite journal |author=Stalpers JA. |year=1993 |title=The Aphyllophoraceous fungi I. Keys to the species of the Thelephorales |journal=Studies in Mycology |volume=35 |pages=29–30 |url=http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/Sim35/full%20text.htm |access-date=2015-01-08 |archive-date=2015-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221225508/http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/Sim35/full%20text.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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