On dead Hoheria populnea. Auckland, Waitakere Ranges, Rangemore Track, 7.VII.l957, J. M. Dingley (HOLOTYPE, PDD25012).

Fructifications firm-fleshy, resupinate, thin, effused, indeterminate, originating as discrete circular or orbicular patches, coalescing to form irregular, linear areas to 10 cm long, pruinose, sordid white to creamy white when fresh, drying to a similarly coloured crust; margins concolorous, fibrillose, adnate. In section 150-200 µm thick, consisting of basal layer and hymenium. Basal layer 20-50 µm thick, composed of distinct, interwoven, hyaline, thick-walled hyphae 2-4.5 µm diam. with walls to 2 µm thick, lying parallel with substratum and typically crystal encrusted, clamp connections sparingly present. Hymenium composed of dikaryophyses and basidia; dikaryophyses abundant, arising vertically or obliquely, from basal hyphae, simple, straight or flexuous, cylindrical to narrowly subclavate, aseptate, smooth basally, heavily crystal encrusted apically, 3-7 µm diam., walls to 2.5 µm thick, projecting to 60 µm beyond basidia; probasidia borne in groups on thinner walled, clamped, fertile hyphae, scattered, broadly elliptical, proliferating through or near basal clamp connections, 18.5-25 x 12.4-15.5 µm becoming 2-celled by longitudinal septa or occasionally longitudinally cruciate-septate; sterigmata stout, cylindrical, to 62 x 4 µm. Basidiospores curved-cylindrical to allantoid, hyaline, apiculate, 18.6-29.8 x 6.8-8.7-(10.2) µm. Germination by repetition or by stout germ tubes.

Dead angiosperm wood.

Fructificationes firmiter carnatae, resupinatae, tenues, pruinosae, sordide albae ad cremeo-albas; margines fibrillosae, adnatae; ordo basalis factus ex hyphis distinctis, crassiparietibus, crystallo incrustatis, nodosis. Dikaryophyses simplices, cylindricae ad anguste subclavatas, crystallo incrustatae ad apicem, crassiparietes: probasidia late elliptica, 18.5-25 x 12.4-15.5 µm, 2-cellulata vel interdum per longitudinem cruciata-septata; sterigmata cylindrica, ad 62 x 4 µm. Basidiosporae curvo-cylindricae ad allantoides, 18.6-29.8 x 6.8-8.7-(10.2) µm. Germinantes per repetitionem, vel per tubulos.
Habitat in mortua Hoheria populnea.

The rather arid texture and thick-walled basal and fertile hyphae indicate that Eichleriella hoheriae is allied to E. subleucophaea. Unlike E. subleucophaea, an ascending layer of thick-walled hyphae is absent in E. hoheriae and the simple dikaryophyses arise directly from basal hyphae. E. hoheriae may be distinguished by the thick-walled basal hyphae, simple, crystal encrusted dikaryophyses with thickened walls and reduced lumina, and large curved-cylindrical to allantoid basidiospores.

Typus Auckland Province, Waitakere Ranges, Rangemore Track, 7.VII.l957, J. M. Dingley, PDD 25012.