CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Westland, Weheka, 200 m. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus cliffortioides: Nelson, Staircase Creek, Reefton, 700 m. Canterbury, Arthur's Pass, 800 m. Nothofagus fusca: Nelson, Staircase Creek, Reefton, 700 m; Orwell Creek, Ahaura, 200 m. LILIACEAE. Rhipogonum scandens: Westland, Weheka, 200 m. MYRTACEAE. Metrosideros robusta: Auckland, Rangemore Track, Waitakere Ranges, 280 m. RUBIACEAE. Coprosma foetidissima: Otago, Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island, 10 m. WINTERACEAE. Pseudowintera colorata: Taranaki, Mt. Egmont, 900 m. UNKNOWN HOSTS. Auckland, Huia, 30 m. Otago, Portobello, 10 m.

Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent, following the substratum closely, effused forming elliptical or irregular areas to 10 x 6 cm; hymenial surface cream, then alutaceous, finally ochraceous, irregularly colliculose, at length sparsely creviced; margin thinning out, white then cream, arachnoid, adherent. Context white, 100-500 µm thick, basal layer of compact parallel hyphae, intermediate layer of intertwined hyphae becoming more dense in the subhymenium; generative hyphae 3-4 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, naked, branched at a wide angle, with clamp connections. Gloeocystidia with oily, orange contents, of two types: (1) arising from the upper part of the intermediate layer, abundant, narrowly cylindrical with slightly tapering bases and rounded apices, not projecting, 40-70 x 5-6 µm; (2) arising from the base of the intermediate layer, flexuous-cylindrical, to 120 x 6 µm. Hymenial layer to 70 µm deep, a close palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and gloeocystidia. Basidia subclavate, 25-35 x 4-6 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata slender, to 6 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, 15-28 x 4-5 µm. Spores allantoid, apiculate, 7-9 x 2.5-3 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: North America, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark of dead branches and trunks.

Separated from C. litschaueri by the ochraceous, colliculose surface, narrower context hyphae with thinner walls, protruding basidia, and allantoid spores. Spores, although allantoid, are of unusual shape, being attenuated from rounded bases to narrow apices. They were not seen in a section from the type with which our collections agree in other features.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico.