ARALIACEAE. Meryta sinclairii: Auckland, North-west King Island. CORYNOCARPACEAE. Corynocarpus laevigatus: Auckland, Ngarawhara Stream, Piha, 10 m. CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Otago, Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus cliffbrtioides: Nelson, Lake Rotoiti, 700 m. Nothofagus menziesii: Otago, Alton Valley, Tuatapere, 120 m. LAURACEAE. Beilschmiedia tawa: Auckland, Blue Lake, Rotorua, 450 m. MYRTACEAE. Leptospermum scoparium: Auckland, Titirangi, coast. PALMAE. Rhopalostylis sapida: Auckland, Huia, 35 m. PAPILIONACEAE. Oxylobium callystachys: Campbells Bay, 85 m. ROSACEAE. Eriobotrya japonica: Auckland, Campbells Bay, 35 m. RUBIACEAE. Coprosma robusta: Auckland, Cornwallis, 20 m. VERBENACEAE. Vitex lucens: Auckland, Whekatahi, Piha, 35 m. VIOLACEAE. Melicytus ramiflorus: Wellington, Lake Papaitonga, 20 m.

Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent, effused forming small linear areas 5-15 x 1-2 cm; hymenial surface white, drying pallid cream, even, not creviced; margin thinning out, arachnoid, white, adherent. Context white, 100-200 µm thick, basal layer scanty, of a few parallel hyphae, intermediate layer of loosely arranged mainly ascending hyphae often branched at a wide angle, more freely in the subhymenium; generative hyphae 3-3-5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, hyaline, with clamp connections, encrusted beneath the hymenium. Metuloids arising from the hymenium and hyphae of the intermediate layer, projecting to 60 µm, subulate with sometimes inflated bases, terminating in long-acuminate apices which often collapse, 60-112 x 4-5 µm, encrusted save at apices with flat tuberculate crystals, walls thinning towards apices. Hymenial layer to 30 µm deep, a lax palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and metuloids. Basidia subclavate, somewhat scanty, 20-26 x 5-6 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata delicate, to 6 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, somewhat scanty, 16-20 x 4-5 µm. Spores narrowly rod-shaped with rounded ends, sometimes vermiform or allantoid, 14-17 x 1.5-2.5 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: North Africa, Europe, Great Britain, North America, West Indies, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark or decorticated dead wood.

Recognised readily by the long rod-shaped spores often adhering in fours, and subulate metuloids projecting for about half their length and bearing flat tuberculate crystals.

TYPE LOCALITY: Tunisia.