Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata stromatic, perithecial, depressed globose, 0.2–0.4 mm in diameter, non-ostiolate, opening by the falling away of the clypeus covering the perithecium, present generally as a single locule in a subepidermal, convex, circular to elliptical, black stroma 0.3–0.7 mm in diameter; on grey, indeterminate leaf spots on both sides of leaves. Asci clavate, 90–120 × 20–26 μm. Ascospores fusiform, 0-septate, 60–66 × 7–8 μm, smooth, hyaline, both ends terminating in long (about 30 μm) awn-like processes.

Distribution: Nelson, North Canterbury.; 1st Record: Sydow (1924).

Significance: None.; Host(s): Dracophyllum traversii.

Stromata amphigena, maculis fulscidulis indeterminatis plerumque insidentia,, plus minusve seriatim disposita, in epidermide evoluta et strato subepidermali plana basi insidentia, plerumque unilocularia, orbicularia vel. elliptica, 0.3-0.75 mm longa, valde convexa, nitida, aterrima, usque 300 µ alta, contextu atro; loculi applanati, 300-400 µ lati, 150-180 µ alti, clypeo 30-40 µ crasso; asci clavati vel fusoideo-clavati, sessiles vel subsessiles, octospori, 90-120 x 20-26 µ; sporae distichae, exacte fusiformes, utrinque acutissimae, continuae, hyalinae, utroque fine cilia longissima persistenti usque 30 µ longa et vix 1 µ crassa semper distinctissima recta vel curvata auctae, 30-36 x 7-8 (sine ciliis); paraphyses copiosae, filiformes, mucosae.

Eine durch die schönen mit langen dauerhaften Zilien versehenen Sporen sehr ausgezeichnete Art.

Hab. in foliis Dracophylli Traversii, Mt. Rolleston, Otago, 14.12.1920, leg. E. H. Atkinson (no. 961).