CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Otago, Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus fusca: Auckland, Lake Waikaremoana, 850 m.

Hymenophore resupinate, annual, ceraceous, loosely attached by a central base, forming orbicular or elliptical areas 3-5 x 2-3 cm; hymenial surface pallid flesh colour, drying orange or reddishbrown with plum or purple coloured central regions, radiately ridged, folds either regular and receding from the centre, or in a series of radiately arranged rounded tubercules larger and more abundant towards the centre, peripherally plane or slightly rugulose, not creviced; margin thinning out, fibrillose, to 2 mm broad, yellow or orange, drying wood colour. Context white, to 1 mm thick, of radiately arranged mainly parallel hyphae more densely compacted beneath the subhymenium and abhymenial surface, embedding a few coarse crystals and in the subhymenial region bearing gelatinous granules; generative hyphae 3-5.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, hyaline, with conspicuous clamp connections. Hymenial layer to 90 µm deep, a dense palisade of basidia and paraphyses, many encrusted with mucilage granules. Basidia clavate, 26-35 x 6-7 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata erect, slender, to 5 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, 18-28 x 4-5 µm. Spores narrowly elliptical or allantoid, 5-6 x 2-2.5 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.1 µm thick, nonamyloid.

DISTRIBUTION: North America, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Bark or decorticated wood of dead branches.

Collections agree with the description published by Cooke, the species being separated from the closely related P. radiata Fr. by the absence of gloeocystidia.

TYPE LOCALITY: Idaho, U.S.A.