 In the 1980s , the availability of fresh specimens of the fungus — collected by Australian mycologist Bruce A. Fuhrer from the cones of Banksia spinulosa — prompted Gordon Beaton and Gretna Weste to reexamine the previous collections . Various apparent and microscopic differences were found which suggested that three distinct species were represented in the collections , and further , the species differed enough from other Encoelia species to warrant the creation of a new genus , which Beaton and Weste named Banksiamyces . The three Banksiamyces species they described in 1982 were the original B. toomansis ( those initially named T. toomansis ) , as well as B. macrocarpus and B. katerinae . A fourth species , B. maccannii , was added to the genus by the same authors in 1984 . A 2006 study identified two additional taxa that did not quite meet the description for previously published species ; these have been called Banksiamyces aff. macrocarpus and Banksiamyces aff. toomansis . Some existing species were found on other banksia species , so evidence strengthened that the individual Banksiamyces fungi did not exclusively parasitize only one banksia species , a suggestion proposed by Beaton and Weste in 1982 . 
