Sparsa, stipitata, candida. Cupulis (0.5-1 mm), cyathiformis, primitis subvillosis, demum nudis, glabris. Ascis clavatis. Sporidiis lanceolatis, utrinque rotundatis, guttulatis (.015-.019 c .003-.004 mm.).Paraphysisbus filiformibus. On Rhipogonum (?), Melbourne, (Australia 379).

Apothecia scattered, superficial; disc concave, up to 1 mm. diameter; receptacle cupshaped, soft, white, drying cream coloured, clothed with fine, downy, white hairs; stalk slender, cylindrical, downy, concolorous. Hairs cylindrical, often undulating, 1-2-septate, with thin, hyaline, granulate walls, up to 60 x 4 µ, their tips vary from slightly enlarged to more often slightly tapering, sometimes tipped by coarser granules. Asci cylindric-clavate, about 80 x 9 µ, 8-spored, pore blued by Melzer's reagent; ascospores cylindric-fusiform, nonseptate, 13-18 x 3 µ. Paraphyses narrowly cylindrical, 1.5-2 µ, wide, with pointed tips, not longer than the asci. On bark.
VICTORIA: Melbourne, on ?Rhipogonum (Liliaceae) , No. 379 (Typus).

On petioles of Cyathea dealbata, Kauaeranga valley, Thames, Auckland district, S. D. Baker 18989.

Asci 80-93 x 8 µ, ascospores elliptic fusiform, 14- 17 x 2.5-3.5 µ, paraphyses narrowly lanceolate, 2-3 µ wide and up to 10 µ longer than the asci, hairs about 70 x 3-4 µ.

The New Zealand material is in much better condition than the type but seems to represent the same species.