DWM 5528

Fruiting body a stalked sporangium, scattered to gregarious, 0.3–0.7 mm tall. Sporotheca globose, usually erect but sometimes nodding, bright yellow to golden, 0.1–0.3 mm in diameter. Stalk slender, tapering to the apex and longitudinally striate, deep yellow to dark brown, 0.2–0.4 mm long. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridial net with angular meshes, slightly flatted[?flattened] nodes and connecting threads without free ends. Calyculus absent or reduced to a small membranous disk at the base of the sporotheca; dictydine granules yellowish brown, 1–1.5 µm in diameter. Spores bright yellow in mass, greyish yellow to almost colourless by transmitted light, subglobose to slightly polygonal, minutely spiny, 6–7 µm in diameter. Plasmodium unknown.

Reported from scattered localities in North America (Keller et al. 1988), Europe (Lado & Pando 1997), Africa (Ukkula 1998), and Asia (Yamamoto 1998). Not reported in print as occurring in New Zealand but appearing on a bark samples of Nothofagus fusca placed in moist chamber culture. The bark sample was collected in Fiordland.

Bark of living trees.

Keller et al. (1988), Lado & Pando (1997).