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Postia
Postia tephroleuca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Fomitopsidaceae
Genus:	Postia Fr. (1874)
Type species
Postia tephroleuca (Fr.) Jülich (1982)
Synonyms
Trichoderma Pers. (1801) Podoporia P.Karst. (1892) Spongiporus Murrill (1905) Hemidiscia Lázaro Ibiza (1916) Osteina Donk (1966) Strangulidium Pouzar (1967)

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 (1822–1911).

Species

A 2008 estimate placed 30 species in the genus. As of June 2018, Index Fungorum accepts 57 species of Postia:

• Postia africana (Ryvarden) V.Papp (2015)
• Postia amurensis Y.C.Dai & Penttilä (2006) – China
• Postia amylocystis Y.C.Dai & Renvall (1994) – China
• Postia amyloidea (Corner) V.Papp (2015)
• Postia balsamea (Peck) Jülich (1982)
• Postia brunnea Rajchenb. & P.K.Buchanan (1996) – Australia; New Zealand
• Postia caesia (Schrad.) P.Karst. (1881) – Europe
• Postia caesioflava (Pat.) V.Papp (2015)
• Postia calcarea Y.L.Wei & Y.C.Dai (2006) – China
• Postia cana H.S.Yuan & Y.C.Dai (2010)
• Postia carbophila Rajchenb. (1995) – South America
• Postia ceriflua (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Jülich (1982)
• Postia coeruleivirens (Corner) V.Papp (2015) – East and Southeast Asia
• Postia cylindrica H.S.Yuan (2017) – China
• Postia dissecta (Cooke) Rajchenb. (1988)
• Postia duplicata L.L.Shen, B.K.Cui & Y.C.Dai (2014)
• Postia floriformis (Quél.) Jülich (1982)
• Postia fragilis (Fr.) Jülich (1982) – Europe
• Postia globicystidia P.K.Buchanan & Ryvarden (1998) – New Zealand
• Postia gloeocystidiata Y.L.Wei & Y.C.Dai (2006) – China
• Postia grata (Berk.) Rajchenb. (1989) – Nepal
• Postia guttulata (Sacc.) Jülich (1982) – Europe; India
• Postia hibernica (Berk. & Broome) Jülich (1982) – Great Britain
• Postia immitis (Peck) Niemelä (2009)
• Postia inocybe (A.David & Malençon) Jülich (1982)
• Postia japonica Y.C.Dai & T.Hatt. (2007)
• Postia johnstonii (Murrill) Jülich (1982)
• Postia lateritia Renvall (1992) – Europe
• Postia leucomallella (Murrill) Jülich (1982) – Europe
• Postia lowei (Pilát) Jülich (1982) – Great Britain
• Postia luteocaesia (A.David) Jülich (1982) – Europe
• Postia manuka (G.Cunn.) P.K.Buchanan & Ryvarden (2000)
• Postia mediterraneocaesia M. Pieri & B.Rivoire (2005) – Europe
• Postia minuta Rajchenb. (2001) – Argentina
• Postia obliqua Y.L.Wei & W.M.Qin (2010) – China
• Postia pelliculosa (Berk.) Rajchenb. (1988) – Uganda
• Postia perdelicata (Murrill) M.J.Larsen & Lombard (1986)
• Postia ptychogaster (F.Ludw.) Vesterh. (1996) – Europe
• Postia punctata Rajchenb. & P.K.Buchanan (1996) – South America; Tasmania
• Postia qinensis Y.C.Dai & Y.L.Wei (2009) – China
• Postia rancida (Bres.) M.J.Larsen & Lombard (1986) – Great Britain
• Postia rennyi (Berk. & Broome) Rajchenb. (1993) – Europe
• Postia septentrionalis (Vampola) Renvall (1992)
• Postia sericeomollis (Romell) Jülich (1982) – Europe
• Postia simanii (Pilát) Jülich (1982)
• Postia stellifera T.Hatt. & Sotome (2011) – Malaysia
• Postia stiptica (Pers.) Jülich (1982) – Europe
• Postia subcaesia (A.David) Jülich (1982) – Europe
• Postia subplacenta B.K.Cui (2012) – China
• Postia subundosa Y.L.Wei & Y.C.Dai (2006) – China
• Postia tephroleuca (Fr.) Jülich (1982) – Asia, Europe
• Postia undosa (Peck) Jülich (1982) – Europe, North America
• Postia venata (Rajchenb. & J.E.Wright) Rajchenb. (1988)
• Postia zebra Y.L.Wei & W.M.Qin (2010) – China

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 (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
• 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

1. "Synonymy: Postia". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
2. Fries, E.M. (1874). Hymenomycetes europaei (in Latin). Uppsala. p. 586.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia. 1 (2): 173–302.
4. Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Winter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 561. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
5. Kirk, P.M. "Species Fungorum (version 28th March 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 26 June 2018.
6. Dai, Y.C.; Penttilä, R. (2006). "Polypore diversity of Fenglin Nature Reserve, northeastern China". Annales Botanici Fennici. 43 (2): 81–96.
7. Dai, Y.C.; Renvall, P. (1994). "Changbai wood-rotting fungi 2. Postia amylocystis (Basidiomycetes), a new polypore species". Annales Botanici Fennici. 31 (2): 71–76.
8. ^ Rajchenberg, M.; Buchanan, P.K. (1996). "Two newly described polypores from Australasia and southern South America". Australian Systematic Botany. 9 (6): 877–885. doi:10.1071/SB9960877.
9. ^ Wei, Y.-L.; Dai Y.-C. (2006). "Three new species of Postia (Aphyllophorales, Basidiomycota) from China". Fungal Diversity. 23: 391–402.
10. Rajchenberg, M. (1995). "New polypores from the Nothofagus forests of Argentina". Mycotaxon. 54: 427–453.
11. Yuan, Hai-Sheng; Mu, Yan-Hong; Qin, Wen-Min (2017). "A new species of Postia (Basidiomycota) based on morphological and molecular characteristics". Phytotaxa. 292 (3): 287. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.292.3.9.
12. Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. (1998). "New Zealand polypore fungi (Aphyllophorales): three new species and a new record". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 36 (2): 219–231. doi:10.1080/0028825x.1998.9512563.
13. Renvall, P. (1992). "Basidiomycetes at the timberline in lapland 4. Postia lateritia n. sp. and its rust-coloured relatives". Karstenia. 32 (2): 43–60. doi:10.29203/ka.1992.291.
14. Rajchenberg, M. (2001). "Postia minuta sp. nov. from Southern Argentina". Harvard Papers in Botany. 6 (1): 183–187.
15. ^ Wei, Y.L.; Qin, W.M. (2010). "Two new species of Postia from China". Sydowia. 62 (1): 165–170.
16. Dai, Y.C.; Yuan, H.S.; Wang, H.C.; Yang, F.; Wei, Y.L. (2009). "Polypores (Basidiomycota) from Qin Mts. in Shaanxi Province, central China". Annales Botanici Fennici. 46 (1): 54–61. doi:10.5735/085.046.0105. JSTOR 23727943. S2CID 86306216.
17. Hattori, T.; Sotome, K.; Ota, Y.; Thi, B.K.; Lee, S.S.; Salleh, B. (2010). "Postia stellifera sp. nov., a stipitate and terrestrial polypore from Malaysia". Mycotaxon. 114: 151–161. doi:10.5248/114.151.
18. Cui, B.-K.; Li, H.-J. (2012). "A new species of Postia (Basidiomycota) from Northeast China". Mycotaxon. 120: 231–237. doi:10.5248/120.231.
19. Miettinen, O.; Vlasák; Rivoire, J.B.; Spirin, V. (2018). "Postia caesia complex (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) in temperate Northern Hemisphere". Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 1: 101–129. doi:10.3114/fuse.2018.01.05. hdl:10138/238584. PMC 7259241. PMID 32490363.

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