Howard James Banker

Howard James Banker (1866 - 1940)

Image of Phellodon tomentosus from Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1816 - 1817) Das System der Pilze und Schwämme

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Biography

I unfortunately don't have any personal information for this person. He seems to have worked mostly with the tooth fungi. The toothed genus Bankera is named after him.

Selected Publications

Howard James Banker (1901) "A preliminary contribution to a knowledge of the Hydnaceae" in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 28:4 pp. 199 - 222

Howard James Banker (1906) "A contribution to the revision of the North American Hydnaceae" in Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 12 pp. 99 - 144

This was his PhD thesis from Columbia University, and was reprinted separately; there, the pagination is given as 99-194.

Howard James Banker (1912) "Type studies in the Hydnaceae: II. Steccherinum" in Mycologia 4:6 pp. 309 - 318

Howard James Banker (1912) "Type studies in the Hydnaceae: I. The genus Manina" in Mycologia 4:5 pp. 271 - 278

Howard James Banker (1913) "Type studies in the Hydnaceae: IV. The genus Phellodon" in Mycologia 5:2 pp. 62 - 66

Howard James Banker (1913) "Type studies in the Hydnaceae: VI. The genera Creolophus, Echinodontium, Gloiodon and Hydnodon" in Mycologia 5:6 pp. 293 - 298

Howard James Banker (1913) "Type studies in the Hydnaceae: III. The genus Sarcodon" in Mycologia 5:1 pp. 12 - 17

Howard James Banker (1913) "Type studies in the Hydnaceae: V. The genus Hydnellum" in Mycologia 5:4 pp. 194 - 205

Howard James Banker (1914) "Type studies in the Hydnaceae: VII. The genera Asterodon and Hydnochaete" in Mycologia 6:5 pp. 231 - 234

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Species

Echinodontium ballouii (H. J. Banker) H. L. Gross
Phellodon tomentosus (Fries) H. J. Banker

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