Pseudowintera colorada (Raoul) Dandy. Otago, Lower Hollyford, January 1950, J.M.D. (2 col. one being type).

Perithecia gregarious in erumpent clusters of 10 or more, stroma absent; globose 0.2-0.4mm. diameter, scarlet, fading to ferruginous, wrinkled occasionally with irregular tubercles, ostiole distinct, papillate and surrounded by a disc of smooth tissue; perithecial wall pseudoparenchymatons 40-501, thick, cells 5-15 x 5-101, rectangular or cuboid, pigmented and thickened. Asci elliptical or clavate, 74-110 x 10-14p,, 8 spored, spores biseriate, occasionally uniseriate at base, pseudoparaphyses filamentous, branched. Spores one-septate, elliptical, filiform 15-22 x 4-5-6'x, smooth, hyaline. Conidial stage; conidiophores stout, compacted to form a pale salmon stroma,. Conidia globose or elliptical 3-7 x 3-4 µm Tubercalaria sp.

New Zealand.

Pseudowintera colorada. (Raoul) Dandy.

Perithecia are globose, never oval as in N. galligena and sometimes covered with scalelike tubercles. Spores are arranged biseriately in the ascus, elliptical, or broadly elliptical, never oval.

LOCALITY: Lower Hollyford, Otago.

Type: Corticolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata perithecial, aggregated in erumpent clusters, stroma absent, globose, scarlet, irregularly warty, 0.2–0.4 mm in diameter, ostiole papillate; on bark on stems. Asci elliptical to clavate, 74–110 × 10–14 μm. Ascospores elliptical, filiform, 1-septate, 15–22 × 4–6 μm, smooth, hyaline. Macroconidia cylindrical, 5–7-septate, 68–81 × 5–6 μm, smooth, hyaline. Microconidia (in culture only) budding off from macroconidia, oval, 0-septate, 7–10 × 2–3 μm, smooth, hyaline.

Distribution: Taranaki, Wellington, Gisborne, Westland, Fiordland, Mid Canterbury, Otago Lakes.; 1st Record: Dingley (1951).

Significance: None.; Host(s): Pseudowintera colorata.