Apothecia sparsa, superficilia, subsessilia; disco rufo-brunneo, concavo, 1-2 mm. lato; receptacula atro-brunnea, extus pilis levibus fuscis, obtusis, flexuosis, scabriusculis, septatis, 130 x 4 µobsita, pedicule sat breve, Asci clavati, octospori, 45 x 4 µ, apice jodo coerulescentes; ascosporae distichae, fusoideae, continuae, 6-7 x 1 µ paraphyses lanciformes, 1.5-2 µ cr.

In petiolis emortuis Cyatheae dealbatae, Waiatarua, Waitakere ranges, Auckland, Nov. 1948, Dingley 18980 (typus).

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Type material in Kew scanty, in poor condition

NEW ZEALAND: Auckland, Waiatarua, Waitakere Ranges, on Cyathea dealbata, xi 1948, leg. J.M. Dingley, PDD 18980 (Holotype, K).

APOTHECIA superficial, scattered or gregarious, subsessile or very short-stipitate. DISC 1-2 mm diam., plano-concave, reddish-brown, smooth, with the margin somewhat inrolled when dried. RECEPTACLE patellate, concolorous with or slightly darker than the disc, rather densely clothed with pale yellowish-brown hairs. HAIRS 70-120(-150) x 3-4 µm, longest near the margin, cylindric, flexuous, obtuse at the tip, thick-walled, septate, granulate throughout and bearing scattered particles of brownish amorphous matter which dissolve in Melzer's reagent. ASCI most 45-50 x 4-5 µm, 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, conical at the apex the small pore stained blue in Melzer's reagent. ASCOSPORES 5.5-8.0 x 1.0-1.3, mean 6.6 (SD 0.6) x mean 1.1 (SD 0.1) µm, hyaline, cylindric, sometimes slightly clavate, rounded at the ends, non-septate, containing 2 small polar guttules, biseriate. PARAPHYSES lanceolate, pointed at the apex, (2.0-)2.5-3.0 µm diam. at the broadest part, sparsely septate, hyaline or faintly pigmented, exceeding the asci by usually less than 10 µm. MEDULLARY EXCIPULUM composed of interwoven, mostly thin-walled, septate, hyaline or pale yellowish hyphae 2.0-2.5 µm diam. ECTAL EXCIPULUM composed of hyaline or pale brown prismatic or somewhat inflated cells, narrower and more deeply pigmented towards the surface, having thin or somewhat thickened walls up to 1.5 µm thick, and mostly measuring 12-18 x 6-9 µm. They lie in rows at a low angle to the surface.

On dead stipes of Cyathea dealbata (Forst.f.) Swartz. Known only from the type collection