 In 1887 , English mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome described a species of fungus they named Tympanis toomansis , collected from dead infructescences ( " cones " ) of Banksia growing on the banks of the Tooma River in southern New South Wales , Australia . Its generic placement was a result of its resemblance to Tympanis , a genus in the family Helotiaceae of the Ascomycota . 
