MID CANTERBURY: Christchurch Botanical Garden, dead leaf of Nothofagus fusca, 9 Sep 2001, PDD 74560

Colony effuse, brown. Conidiophores brown 20–50 × 3 µm, geniculate. Conid- iogenesis sympodial. Conidia brown, triangular, horned (sometimes unequally), up to 40 µm wide

First record from New Zealand. This and other species in the genus are not uncommon in terrestrial and aquatic environments. It was originally described from dead wood of Ulex europaeus in the UK, and has subsequently been found on litter of many plants and from stream foam samples in the UK (Anon. 1998–2004; Matsushima 1975, 1980). The widespread distribution and highly characteristic morphology of the conidia make the absence of previous New Zealand records unexpected. The closest species to D. scalaroides is D. taurina (Cazau et al. 1993). However, this species possesses longer appendages. In the diagnostic table for Diplocladiella figured in Cazau et al. (1993), the column entries for D. scalaroides and D. tricladioides have been translocated; also, D. scalaroides Arnaud was validated by Ellis (1976) and not by Matsushima (1975)