Perithecia gregarious or caespitose on or immersed in a poorly developed pseudoparenchymatous stroma, globose 0-2-0-5mm. diameter, coral coloured darker when mature, translucent, ostiole small, indistinct, perithecial wall pseudoparenchymatoas 55-60pt thick, cells 8-1O µm, diameter, outer cells thick walled but hyaline, inner cells pigmented. Asci cylindrical 45-65 x 6p,, 8 spored, obliquely uniseriate ; pseudoparaphyses diffluent. Spores one-septate, broadly elliptical constricted at septa 8-11 x 5-6p,, sometimes non-septate, globose, 6-8p, diameter, verrucose, yellow, thick walled.

Perithecia gregaria vel caespitosa in strornate parvo et pseudoparenchymato; globosa, 0-2-0-5 µm. diam., corallina, translucida; ostiolo obscuro ; pariete perithecii pseudoparenchymato 55-60p, crasso ; cellalis exterioribus hyalinis; cellulis interioribus leviter tinctis. Asci cylindrici 45-65 x 6t k; parientibus tenuibus; 8 sporis, oblique uniseriatis; pseudoparaphysibus absentibus. Sporae uni-septatae, late ellipticae, S-11 x 5-6p., verrncosae, pallide luteae.

Type: Corticolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata stromatic, perithecial, aggregated in clusters of 3–10, globose, reddish pink becoming darker, 0.2–0.5 mm in diameter, ostiole indistinct, immersed in a poorly-developed stroma; on bark on stems, often on old leaf scars. Asci cylindrical, 45–65 × 6 μm. Ascospores broadly elliptical, 1-septate, 8–11 × 5–6 μm, occasionally globose and 0-septate, 6–8 μm in diameter, verrucose, yellow.

Distribution: Auckland, Coromandel, Taupo, Wellington, North Canterbury.; 1st Record: Dingley (1951).

Significance: None.; Host(s): Carpodetus serratus, Coprosma arborea, C. foetidissima, C. pseudocuneata, Geniostoma rupestre var. ligustrifolium, Ripogonum scandens.