Type and specimen examined: New Zealand: Mt. Tongariro, 2500 ft., Auckland District. Mar. 1952. Collected by G. H. Cunningham. (NZPD).

Receptacles scattered, waxy, brittle, cupulate, 0,5-0,75 mm. in diameter, attached by a narrow base; exterior white, tomentum composed of tortuous aseptate thick-walled branched hyphae, 5 µ in diameter, with lumen almost obliterated, coated with coarse deciduous crystals, terminating in long, gradually tapering spirally coiled naked apices; margins inturned, lacerate when old; hymenial surface concave, buff or honey-colored; context white, to 50 µ thick, to 500 µ at the base, of parallel radiately arranged hyphae; generative hyphae to 3,5 µ in diameter, wall 0,25 µ thick, sparsely branched, septate; hymenial layer to 40 µ deep, paraphyses subclavate ; basidia subclavate, 16-20 x 5-6 µ, 4-sterigmate; spores fusiform-elliptical, apex rounded, base pointed and apiculate, 7-8 x 3-3,5 µ, smooth, hyaline.

Habitat: On Phyllocladus trichomanoides.

The above description was taken from Cunningham (1953). The writer would add that the basidia have basal clamps and some context hyphae are clamped. The surface hairs reach 150 µ long with the outer third of the whiplash type described above.