''Postia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of brown rot fungi in the family

Fomitopsidaceae The Fomitopsidaceae are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order Polyporales. Most species are parasitic on woody plants, and tend to cause Wood-decay fungus#Brown rot, brown rots. The name comes from ''Fomitopsis'' (meaning "looking like ...

Taxonomy

''Postia'' was

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

by mycologist

Elias Magnus Fries Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the Mycology, "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and li ...

in his 1874 work ''Hymenomycetes europaei''. The genus name honours Swedish naturalist Hampus von Post (1822–1911).

Species

A 2008 estimate placed 30 species in the genus. ,

Index Fungorum ''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partners along with Landcare Research and th ...

accepts 57 species of ''Postia'': 2010-06-24 Oligoporus guttulatus 90882

In a 2018 revision of the ''Postia caesia''

complex Complex commonly refers to: * Complexity, the behaviour of a system whose components interact in multiple ways so possible interactions are difficult to describe ** Complex system, a system composed of many components which may interact with each ...

, Otto Miettinen and colleagues proposed four

new combinations In biological taxonomy, a combinatio nova (abbreviated comb. nov. or n. comb.) refers to the formal renaming of an organism's scientific name when it is transferred to a different genus, reclassified within a different species, or its taxonomic ...

, and described ten new species: *'' P. alni'' Niemelä & Vampola (2018) – Europe *'' P. arbuti'' Spirin (2018) – North America *'' P. auricoma'' Spirin & Niemelä (2018 – Eurasia *'' P. bifaria'' Spirin (2018) – East Asia *'' P. caesiosimulans'' (G.F.Atk.) Spirin & Miettinen (2018) –

Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...

*'' P. comata'' Miettinen (2018) – Northeastern United States *'' P. cyanescens'' Miettinen (2018) – Europe *'' P. glauca'' Spirin & Miettinen (2018) – East Asia *'' P. gossypina'' (Moug. & Lév.) Spirin & Rivoire (2018) – Europe *'' P. livens'' Miettinen & Vlasák (2018) – North America *'' P. magna'' Miettinen (2018) – China; South Korea *'' P. populi'' Miettinen (2018) – Holarctic *'' P. simulans'' (P.Karst.) Spirin & Rivoire (2018) – Holarctic *'' P. subviridis'' (Ryvarden & Guzmán) Spirin (2018) – Europe; North America *'' P. yanae'' Miettinen & Kotiranta (2018) – Eastern Siberia

References

Fomitopsidaceae Polyporales genera Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries Taxa described in 1874 Long stubs with short prose {{Polyporales-stub