Postia
Sign in to savePostia is a genus of brown rot fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae.
Species
Genus
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyCompositae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 85
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Dacryobolaceae
- Collections
- US, F, MEL, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), UFRGS, USF
- Recorded in
- Guyana, United States, French Polynesia, Australia, Brasil, Sweden
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Species
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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).
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