Postia
Postia is a genus of brown rot fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae.Taxonomy
Postia was circumscribed by mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in his 1874 work Hymenomycetes europaei. The genus name honours Swedish naturalist Hampus von Post.Species
A 2008 estimate placed 30 species in the genus., Index Fungorum accepts 57 species of Postia:
In a 2018 revision of the Postia caesia complex, Otto Miettinen and colleagues proposed four new combinations, and described ten new species:
P. alni Niemelä & Vampola – EuropeP. arbuti Spirin – North AmericaP. auricoma Spirin & Niemelä – East AsiaP. caesiosimulans Spirin & Miettinen – HolarcticP. comata Miettinen – Northeastern United StatesP. cyanescens Miettinen – EuropeP. glauca Spirin & Miettinen – East AsiaP. gossypina Spirin & Rivoire – EuropeP. livens Miettinen & Vlasák – North AmericaP. magna Miettinen – China; South KoreaP. populi Miettinen – HolarcticP. simulans Spirin & Rivoire – HolarcticP. subviridis Spirin – Europe; North AmericaP. yanae'' Miettinen & Kotiranta – Eastern Siberia
