Postia cylindrica is a species of poroid fungus in the family Fomitopsidaceae. Found in Southern China, it was described as a new species in 2017 by Hai-Sheng Yuan. The type collection was found growing on a dead pine tree in Jiangxi. The fungus is characterized macroscopically by crust-like to effused-reflexed fruit bodies with a cream to buff coloured cap surface and a reddish-brown margin that curves inward. There are gloeoplerous (oily) hyphal cells in the cuticular layer, and an absence of cystidia in the hymenium. The fungus produces smooth, cylindrical, thin-walled spores measuring 4.7–5.2 by 1.3–1.5 μm.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Fomitopsidaceae |
| Genus: | Postia |
| Species: | P. cylindrica
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| Binomial name | |
| Postia cylindrica H.S.Yuan (2017)
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References
edit- ^ 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): 287–295. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.292.3.9.
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