Postia pelliculosa is a wood-rotting bracket fungus found on stumps and logs here, in NZ, and in South America. The bracket is 80 mm wide, 60 mm radius, attached a broad base, and is about 20 mm thick. The bracket is covered with a dense layer of red-brown hair, and is soft amd moist when fresh, brittle when dry. The white pores are fine, angular, and bruising brown; spore print white. Ned's Gully, Cathedral Range, 2007.