Banksiamyces toomansis

Banksiamyces toomansis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Helotiales
Family: Helotiaceae
Genus: Banksiamyces
Species: B. toomansis
Binomial name
Banksiamyces toomansis
(Berk. & Broome) G.W.Beaton (1982)
Synonyms[1]

Tympanis toomansis Berk. & Broome (1886)
Encoelia toomansis (Berk. & Broome) Dennis (1958)

Banksiamyces toomansis is a species of fungus in the Helotiaceae family. It was first described as Tympanis toomansis by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome in 1886,[2] and transferred to the genus Encoelia in 1957 by R.W.G. Dennis.[3] Gordon William Beaton transferred it to Banksiamyces in 1982. The fungus grows on dead Banksia cones, and has a distribution limited to Australia.[4]

The type collection of B. toomansis was found on a cone of Banksia marginata on the banks of the Tooma River of New South Wales.[2][4] It has also been recovered from a cone of Banksia sphaerocarpa from near Busselton in Western Australia, B. nutans, B. pulchella, B. speciosa, and B. occidentalis, all from Mount Merivale, 20 km (12 mi) east of Esperance, B. baxteri cultivated at Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, B. integrifolia from the Blue Mountains, and B. marginata from Kangaroo Island.[5] Synonyms include Tympanis toomansis Berk. & Br., and Encoelia toomansis (Berk. & Br.). Its ascospores can range in shape from elliptical to cylindrical, and have dimensions of 6–10 by 2.5–3 µm.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Encoelia toomansis (Berk. & Broome) Dennis 1958". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Berkeley MJ, Broome CE. (1886). "List of fungi from Queensland and other parts of Australia; with descriptions of new species". Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London. 2 2 (10): 217–24. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1887.tb01008b.x.
  3. ↑ Dennis RWG. (1957). "New or interesting Australian discomycetes". Kew Bulletin 12 (3): 397–8. doi:10.2307/4113703.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Beaton G, Weste G. (1982). "Banksiamyces gen. nov., a discomycete on dead Banksia cones". Transactions of the British Mycological Society 79 (2): 271–7. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(82)80113-7.
  5. ↑ Sommerville K, May T. (2006). "Some taxonomic and ecological observations on the genus Banksiamyces". Victorian Naturalist 123 (6): 366–75.
  6. ↑ Dennis RWG. (1958). "Critical notes on some Australian Helotiales and Ostropales". Kew Bulletin 2: 321–58. JSTOR 4109542.