Belongs within: Polyporales.
Phlebia is a genus of corticioid (crust-like) fungi with basidia forming a dense palisade on the hymenium, and associated with a white rot (Binder et al. 2005).
<==Phlebia
| i. s.: P. albida RS99
| P. merismoides B14
| P. subochracea BH05
|–+–+–P. chrysocreas BH05
| | `–P. uda BH05
| `–+–P. subserialis BH05
| `–+–P. livida BH05
| `–+–‘Mycoacia’ aurea BH05
| `–Phlebiella HB02
| |–P. griseofulva HB02
| `–P. pseudotsugae BH05
`–+–+–Climacodon septentrionalis BH05
| `–‘Candelabrochaete’ septocystidia HB02
`–+–P. tremellosa BH05
`–+–P. radiata BH05
`–+–+–P. acerina BH05
| `–P. rufa BH05
`–+–P. lindtneri BH05
`–P. rufa BH05
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[BH05] Binder, M., D. S. Hibbett, K.-H. Larsson, E. Larsson, E. Langer & G. Langer. 2005. The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes). Systematics and Biodiversity 3 (2): 113–157.
[B14] Bouchard, P. (ed.) 2014. The Book of Beetles: A lifesize guide to six hundred of nature’s gems. Ivy Press: Lewes (United Kingdom).
[HB02] Hibbett, D. S., & M. Binder. 2002. Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences 269: 1963–1969.
[RS99] Rossman, A. Y., G. J. Samuels, C. T. Rogerson & R. Lowen. 1999. Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes). Studies in Mycology 42: 1–248.