Apothecia sparsa, erumpentia, substipitata; disco flavido, concavo, 1 mm. lato; excipulo alba, pilis obtusis, hyalinis, crasse tunicatis, scabriusculis, septatis, 120 x 3 µ obtecto; asci cylindracei, apice rotundati, octospori, 60-70 x 8-9 µ, apice jodo non tincti; ascosporae distichae, rectae, ellipticae, hyalinae, 12-17 x 3-4 µ, utrinque rotundatae, demum medio septatae, non constrictae; paraphyses filiformes, ad apicem 2 µ crassae.

In ramulis emortuis Aristoteliae fruticosae, 900 m., Mt. Egmont, Taranaki district, 23.3.1951, Dingley 18994 (typus).

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] On narrow twigs.

NEW ZEALAND: Taranaki district, Mt. Egmont, 900 m., on dead twigs of Aristotelia fruticosa, 23 iii 1951, leg. J.M. Dingley, ex P.D.D. 18994 (Holotype, K).

APOTHECIA scattered to gregarious, erumpent, short-stipitate or subsessile. DISC 1.0-1.5 mm diam. plano-concave, smooth, pale yellowish. RECEPTACLE shallow cupulate, with incurved margin when dry, densely clothed with white hairs, sometimes discolouring yellowish in dried apothecia. HAIRS hyaline, 3.0-3.5 µm diam., up to c. 200 µm long at the margin, shorter on the receptacle, cylindric, obtuse, sometimes expanded at the apex, multiseptate, walls thickened, particularly towards the base, granulate throughout and remaining so after soaking in 5% KOH, or smooth at the extreme base. ASCI 60-67 x 8-9 µm, 8-spored, clavate, tapered below to a short stalk, thin-walled, the apex broadly rounded. ASCOSPORES hyaline, ellipso-cylindric, with ends rounded, sometimes slightly curved, developing a single median or slightly sub-median septum, biseriately arranged, 12-17 x 3.5-4.5 µm, mean 14.9(SD 1.1) x mean 3.7(SD 0.2) µm. PARAPHYSES cylindric, obtuse, equal to the asci, sometimes branched near the base, hyaline, 1.5-2.0(-2.5) µm diam. SUBHYMENIUM composed of largely vertically arranged, somewhat interwoven hyphae 1.5-2.0 µm diam. in an irregular layer not distinctly differentiated from the medullary excipulum. MEDULLARY EXCIPULUM up to 140 µm thick at the centre of the receptacle, narrowed towards the margin and merging with the ectal excipulum, hyaline, composed of loosely interwoven hyphae 2-3 µm diam. Below this is a narrow layer, 20-25 µm thick at the base of the receptacle, of sub-parallel, undulating hyphae 1.5-2.0 µm diam. lying in a gelatinous matrix and continuous with the vertically orientated, interwoven gelatinized hyphae of the stipe medulla. ECTAL EXCIPULUM duplex, comprising an innermost layer up to 70 µm thick composed of hyaline, interwoven hyphae 3-4 µm diam. immersed in a gelatinous matrix and arranged at a high angle to the surface, and forming the outermost layer, 10-15 µm thick, of small, sub-angular, rather thick-walled cells 4-6 µm diam.

Known only from the type locality.

On dead twigs of Aristotelia fruticosa Hook. f. (Elaeocarpaceae).