| Generic short diagnoses:
Soft-fleshed, monomitic, brown-rotting, pileate or resupinate polypores, white or vividly coloured, with inamyloid spores, and some species with cystidial organs of various types. |
Species example: |

Postia stiptica - DK: bitter kødporesvamp UK: Bitter Bracket |
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-05.234 |
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