Postia ptychogaster

Postia ptychogaster, commonly known as the powderpuff bracket, is a species of fungus in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The fungus, which is found in Europe, resembles a powdery cushion that fruits on stumps and logs of rotting conifer wood. In this stage of its life cycle, the "cushion" is a mass of chlamydospores.[1]

Postia ptychogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Fomitopsidaceae
Genus: Postia
Species:
P. ptychogaster
Binomial name
Postia ptychogaster
(F.Ludw.) Vesterh. (1996)
Synonyms
Species synonymy
  • Polyporus ptychogaster F.Ludw. (1880)
  • Tyromyces ptychogaster (F.Ludw.) Donk (1933)
  • Oligoporus ptychogaster (F.Ludw.) Falck & O.Falck (1937)
  • Leptoporus ptychogaster (F.Ludw.) Pilát (1938)
  • Trichoderma fuliginoides Pers. (1801)
  • Arongylium fuliginoides (Pers.) Link (1809)
  • Strongylium fuliginoides (Pers.) Ditmar (1809)
  • Ptychogaster fuliginoides (Pers.) Donk (1972)
  • Ptychogaster albus Corda (1838)
  • Ceriomyces albus var. richonii Sacc. (1888)
  • Ceriomyces albus (Corda) Sacc. (1888)
  • Ceriomyces richonii Sacc. (1888)
  • Oligoporus ustilaginoides Bref. (1889)
  • Polyporus ustilaginoides (Bref.) Sacc. & Traverso (1911)
  • Ptychogaster flavescens Falck & O.Falck (1937)

References
  1. Roberts, P.; Evans, S. (2011). The Book of Fungi. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 413. ISBN 978-0-226-72117-0.


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