ELAEOCARPACEAE. Elaeocarpus dentatus: Auckland, Waikaretu, 140 m. MONIMIACEAE. Hedycarya arborea: Auckland, Western Hills, Whangarei, 120 m. IN KEW HERBARIUM: Only one collection from the region, ex "N.Z., Colenso, b304".

Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent, effused forming irregular areas 8-15 x 3-5 cm, 1.5-2 mm deep, with numerous outlying islands. Hymenial surface even, at first snow white, becoming pallid cream and somewhat translucent, finally drying pallid isabelline or dingy cream, not creviced; margin irregular, thinning out, white, to 1.5 mm wide. Pores not in strata, round or more commonly angular, glancing, 5-7 per mm, 100-200 µm diameter, to 1 mm deep; dissepiments entire, 50-100 µm thick, commonly about 50 µm, equal or tapering near apices, minutely velutinate. Context white, 0.4-0.5 mm thick, of densely intertwined hyphae, more loosely and somewhat parallel next the substratum, embedding crystals; generative hyphae 3.5-4 µm diameter, walls 0.5 µm thick, septate, branched, with abundant clamp connections, frequently crystal encrusted. Hymenial layer to 18 µm deep, a dense palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia subclavate, often fusiform when immature, 12-18 x 4-6 µm, bearing 2-4 spores; sterigmata erect, slender, to 4 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, some pyriform, 10-14 x 3.5-4.5 µm. Spores broadly elliptical, or ovate, 4-5 x 2.5-3.5 walls smooth, hyaline, 0.1 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, North America, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Decayed decorticated wood and bark of dead fallen or standing stems and branches, associated with a white rot.

Collections agree with specimens in Kew herbarium so named by Bresadola and Romell, and the interpretation is now accepted by European mycologists. The species is the type of Fibuloporia Bond & Sing. ex Sing.

TYPE LOCALITY: Europe.