FAGACEAE. Nothofagus cliffortioides: Nelson, Lake Rotoiti, 700 m. ROSACEAE. Rubus australis: Auckland, Walkers Bush, Henderson Valley, 120 m, type collection, P.D.D. herbarium, No. 18614.

Pilei annual, crowded in linear groups associated with a delicate white subiculum, membranous, fragile, cupulate or as often infundibuliform, attached by or pendent from narrow bases, 0.1-0.5 mm diameter, 0.25-1 mm long; pileus surface white, tomentose, abhymenial hairs tortuous, tapering to bluntly acuminate apices, aseptate, unbranched, to 3 µ diameter, walls 0.25 µ thick, hyaline, densely encrusted with fine crystals; margin inturned, fimbriate; hymenial surface even, concave, white or ivory. Context white, to 60 µ thick, of parallel hyphae radiately arranged; generative hyphae to 3 µ diameter, walls 0.2 µ thick, hyaline. Hymenial layer to 30 µ deep, a close palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia clavate, 10-16 x 5-6 µ, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata slightly arcuate, slender, to 5 µ long. Paraphyses clavate, 8-12 x 4-5 µ. Spores broadly obovate, pip-shaped, or subglobose, apiculate, 4.5-5 x 3.5-4.5 µ, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.1 µ thick.

TYPE LOCALITY: Henderson Valley, Auckland, New Zealand.
DISTRIBUTION: New Zealand.

HABITAT: Crowded on bark of dead branches.

Pilei ex subtile albo subiculo, cupulati vel infundibuliformes; exteriore parte alba, tomentosa pilis tortuosis, hyalinis, fastigatis, incrustatis. Basidia clavata, 10-16 x 5-6 µ. Sporae late obovatae, obovatae attenuato-apiculati, vel subglobosae, 4-5.5 x 3.5-4.5 µ. On dead bark of Rubus australis, Henderson Valley, Auckland, N.Z.

The delicate white subiculum, delicate walls of the small pilei, acuminate, hyaline, encrusted abhymenial hairs, and small obovate or pip-shaped apiculate spores separate the species from others of the section.