CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Otago, Ryans Creek, Stewart Island. VIOLACEAE. Melicytus ramiflorus: Auckland, Kauaeranga Valley, Thames, 60 m. UNKNOWN HOST. Auckland, Waiomu Valley, Thames, 130 m.

Subiculum annual, arachnoid, white, effused forming irregular areas to 5 x 2.5 cm. Pilei scattered or crowded in small groups, not confluent, cylindrical, 0.25-1.25 mm tall, 0.1-0.3 mm diameter, attached by narrow bases, ceraceous, fragile, white drying honey yellow; pileus surface delicately pruinose, clothed with delicate septate abhymenial hairs bearing apically 3-11 filiform branches 0.5-1 µm diameter; margin even, fringed with a compact palisade of branched hairs, erect or slightly inturned. Context white, to 30 µm thick, of densely compacted parallel hyphae; generative hyphae 2-2.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, hyaline. Hymenial layer to 25 µm deep, a close palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia clavate, 14-18 x 4-5.5 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata erect, slender, to 4 µm long. Paraphyses clavate, 8-14 x 3.5-4 µm. Spores globose or subglobose, apiculate, 4.5-5 µm diameter, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Great Britain, North America, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Solitary or crowded on bark or decorticated wood of dead branches.

Separation from L. fasciculata may be made by the type of abhymenial hairs covering surfaces of pilei. In L. candida they are freely septate with delicate walls and apices bearing several (2-11) delicate branches.

TYPE LOCALITY: Europe.