# Bankera

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{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Bankera violascens (9737748490).jpg
| image_caption = ''Bankera violascens''
| taxon = Bankera
| authority = [Coker](/source/William_Chambers_Coker) & [Beers](/source/Alma_Holland_Beers) ex [Pouzar](/source/Zden%C4%9Bk_Pouzar) (1955)
| type_species = ''[Bankera fuligineoalba](/source/Bankera_fuligineoalba)''
| type_species_authority = ([J.C.Schmidt](/source/J.C.Schmidt)) Coker & Beers ex Pouzar (1955)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''[B. cinerea](/source/Bankera_cinerea)''<br>
''[B. fuligineoalba](/source/Bankera_fuligineoalba)''<br>
''[B. mollis](/source/Bankera_mollis)''<br>
''[B. violascens](/source/Bankera_violascens)''
}}

'''''Bankera''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of four species of [tooth fungi](/source/hydnoid_fungi) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Bankeraceae](/source/Bankeraceae). The genus was first [circumscribed](/source/circumscription_(taxonomy)) in 1951 by [William Chambers Coker](/source/William_Chambers_Coker) and [Alma Holland Beers](/source/Alma_Holland_Beers),<ref name="Coker 1951"/> but this publication was [invalid](/source/valid_name_(botany)) according to the [rules of botanical nomenclature](/source/International_Code_of_Nomenclature_for_algae%2C_fungi%2C_and_plants). It was later published validly by [Zdeněk Pouzar](/source/Zden%C4%9Bk_Pouzar) in 1955.<ref name="Pouzar 1955"/> The [type species](/source/type_species) is ''[B.&nbsp;fuligineoalba](/source/Bankera_fuligineoalba)''. The genus is [ectomycorrhiza](/source/ectomycorrhiza)l with [gymnosperm](/source/gymnosperm)s, usually with trees from the [pine family](/source/pine_family).<ref name="Stalpers 1993"/>

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

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

==Species==

*''[Bankera cinerea](/source/Bankera_cinerea)''
*''[Bankera fuligineoalba](/source/Bankera_fuligineoalba)''
*''[Bankera mollis](/source/Bankera_mollis)''
*''[Bankera violascens](/source/Bankera_violascens)''

==References==
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<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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Category:Agaricomycetes genera
Category:Thelephorales
Category:Thelephorales genera

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