Paratype: AFRICA: [Ruwenzori, 6600 ft.], Scott Elliot [no date], CUP-D 4166 (73-75) ex NY-Massee.

Apothecia 0.8-1.0 mm in diameter, turbinate when young, shallow cupulate when mature, receptacle dark brown, lighter toward the edge, disc reviving pale to light brown, medium to dark brown when dry. Ectal excipulum of textura oblita, outer layers dark brown, inner layers light brown and J+, cells 7.0-10 x 1.0-3.0 µm. Asci 8-spored, clavate, when young with an apical papilla, 150-178 (-185) x (13-) 15-17 µm. Ascospores cylindrical clavate, outer walls and septa light yellow-brown in all or some of the cells, J+, disintegrating cells or refractocells sometimes present, triseriate, (33-) 44-56 x 4.0-5.0 µm, (6-) 7 (-8) septate, septa distinctly light brown, gel sheath slightly vertucose. Paraphyses long and filiform, simple, septate, frequently swollen and rounded at the apex, 2.0 µm wide at the middle, 3.0 µm wide at the apex. Conidiophore brown, lighter toward the apex, septate, flexuous, with scars that do not protrude grossly, 5.0-7.0 µm wide at the middle, 8.8 µm wide at the base. Conidia fusiform, brown, 7-septate, dark septa absent, sometimes with central and/or basal cells dark, 36-37 x 11-12 µm, basal scar 2.0-3.0 µm wide. Anamorph: Pseudospiropes sp.

New Zealand and Africa (Uganda).

On dead stem of Rhipogonium scandens, and on old bark.

Ab Strossmayeriae speciebus aliis ascosporis parietibus flavo-brunneis et septis flavo-brunneis praeditis differt.

On dead stem of Rhipogonium scandens (= 'Supplejack'), Orongorongo Valley, near Wellington, New Zealand, November 1970, A. Bell, NY - Fungi of New Zealand, CUP 61932 ex NY.