Genus
Fuscopostia
Fuscopostia fragilis. Photo: (c) Danny Newman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
The Fomitopsidaceae are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. Most species are parasitic on woody plants, and tend to cause brown rots. The name comes from Fomitopsis (meaning “looking like Fomes”) + -aceae (a suffix used to form taxonomic family names).