CORNACEAE. Griselinia lucida: Wellington, Mt. Ruapehu, 1,100 m. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus cliffortioides: Wellington, Chateau, Mt. Ruapehu, 1,000 m. MYRTACEAE. Eucalyptus spp.: New South Wales, Neutral Bay. South Australia, Mt. Lofty. RUBIACEAE. Coprosma linanifolia: Hawke's Bay, Upper Mohaka River, 700 m.

Hymenophore annual, ceraceous, adherent, effused forming linear areas to 12 x 5 cm; hymenial surface cream, pallid alutaceous, or ochre, becoming deeply areolately creviced; then appearing tuberculate; margin thinning out, concolorous, byssold, adherent. Context white, 100-400 µm thick, basal layer narrow, of loosely arranged mainly parallel hyphae, intermediate layer of erect hyphae more densely compacted in the subhymenium, embedding masses of crystals which may be arranged in layers; generative hyphae 3.5-4 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, encrusted, without clamp connections. Hymenial layer to 40 µm deep, a close palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia subclavate, 14-32 x 4-6 µm, bearing 2-4 spores; sterigmata slender, to 8 µm long. Paraphyses cylindrical or subclavate, 14-28 x 4-5 µm. Spores oval, ovate, or broadly elliptical, 4-5-6 x 3.5-4 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark or decorticated dead branches.

Collections listed agree with a specimen of C. tuberculatum examined in Kew herbarium, differing mainly in the brighter colour of the surface and, particularly, in the masses of crystals present in the context. In specimens from Griselinia lucida crystals are confined to the basal part of the context, whereas in those from Nothofagus cliffortioides they extend to the hymenial layer, lying between and partly encrusting basidia and paraphyses. Australian collections bear only a few crystals, hyphae of the context being encrusted with mucilage granules. Margins of crevices in old specimens often lift slightly and give to plants an odontoid appearance. When plants are actively growing the surface is even although deeply creviced.

TYPE LOCALITY: Finland.