Type: Rust and Smut Fungi; Description: Sori in both male and female inflorescences; in female inflorescence restricted to some of the fruits or part of them, rarely also in floral pedicels; in male inflorescence restricted to some of the peduncles of the umbel; rarely appearing on the raceme axis as fusiform or ellipsoidal pustules, a few mm long, rupturing to expose a dark brown powdery mass of spores. Spores variable in shape and size, subglobose, broadly ellipsoidal, ovoid to irregular, 10–17 × 12–26 μm, 0–2-septate, densely verrucose, olivaceous brown.

Distribution: Westland, Stewart Island.; 1st Record: Vánky et al. (1999).

Significance: This smut causes no damage of any importance.; Host(s): Schefflera digitata.