Postia (a genus of bracket fungi)

Interactions where Postia is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

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Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
hymenium (live)		live hymenium of basidiome is parasitised by internal basidiome			Tremella polyporina	a brain fungus	Tremellales: Tremellaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 British Tremella species IV: Tremella obscura, T. penetrans, T. giraffa & T. polyporina, Roberts, P., 2007	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Tremellomycetes/Tremellales/Tremellaceae/Tremella polyporina/	Tremella polyporina	a brain fungus		internal		basidiome	Fungus / parasite			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Polyporales/Fomitopsidaceae/Postia/	Postia	a genus of bracket fungi		live	hymenium	basidiome				internal basidiome parasitises live hymenium of basidiome

Postia (a genus of bracket fungi) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Postia (a genus of bracket fungi) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Author & Year	Title	Source
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Roberts, P., 2007	British Tremella species IV: Tremella obscura, T. penetrans, T. giraffa & T. polyporina	Field Mycology Vol 8 (4): 127-133.

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Postia balsamea a bracket fungus	Species		18 trophisms	2 references
Postia caesia agg. a group of bracket fungi	Species aggregate	2 subtaxa	55 trophisms
Postia ceriflua a bracket fungus	Species		7 trophisms
Postia floriformis a bracket fungus	Species		6 trophisms
Postia folliculocystidiata a bracket fungus	Species		2 trophisms
Postia fragilis a bracket fungus	Species		3 trophisms
Postia guttulata a bracket fungus	Species		2 trophisms
Postia hibernica a bracket fungus	Species		2 trophisms
Postia leucomallella a bracket fungus	Species		14 trophisms
Postia lowei a bracket fungus	Species		3 trophisms
Postia ptychogaster Powderpuff Bracket	Species		26 trophisms
Postia rancida a bracket fungus	Species		1 trophisms
Postia rennyi a bracket fungus	Species		6 trophisms
Postia sericeomollis a bracket fungus	Species		21 trophisms
Postia sp. ined. (near P. ptychogaster) a bracket fungus	Species		2 trophisms
Postia stiptica Bitter Bracket	Species		36 trophisms
Postia tephroleuca Greying Bracket, Greyling Bracket	Species		32 trophisms
Postia wakefieldiae a bracket fungus	Species		24 trophisms

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Postia (a genus of bracket fungi)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Pegler, D.N. & Saunders, E.M.	1994	British poroid species formerly placed in the genus Tyromyces (Coriolaceae)	Mycologist Vol 08 (01): 24-31.

Postia (a genus of bracket fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

FOMITOPSIDACEAE
(a family of bracket fungi)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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Postia Fr.
(a genus of bracket fungi)

Interactions where Postia is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Postia is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)

Genus	Postia (a genus of bracket fungi)
Family	FOMITOPSIDACEAE (a family of bracket fungi)
Order	POLYPORALES (polypores)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)