ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 6 collections were examined in addition to the holotype. All were from New Zealand, and included: AUCKLAND: Waitakere Ra., Cascades Track, on Collospermum hastatum, P. R. Johnston, G. J. Samuels, 9 May 1981 (PDD 41854); Warkworth, Moirs Hill Track, on Collospermum hastatum, P.R. Johnston, E.M. Gibellini, 1 Sep 1981 (PDD 41857).

Ascocarps immersed, urceolate, round, 0.2-0.3 mm diam., crystalline margin narrow, entire to lacerate. Margin in cross-section 50-60 µm wide. Crystals forming a prominent, 30-40 µm wide cap at top of margin. Wall layer 10-15 µm wide, extending under the subhymenium; comprising gelatinous, hyaline hyphae. Periphyses 20-35 x 2-2.5 µm, unbranching. Paraphyses swollen into a knob-like tip, 2.5-3 µm diam., unbranching, nonamyloid. Asci 60-80 x 3.5-5 µm, cap 1.5-3 µm thick, with an indistinct central pore, 8-spored. Spores fusiform, 15-25 x 2.5-4 µm, 3(-4) septate, slightly constricted at septa, hyaline.
Anamorph in vivo: Has not been found.
Characteristics in culture: A small percentage of ascospores germinating on agar plates in 4 days, forming colonies on OA and ME 1 cm diam. after 6-8 weeks. Colonies pustulate, orange in colour, lacking aerial mycelium, sterile.

Dead leaves of Collospermum hastatum.

Ascocarpi immersi, profunde cupulati, 0.2-0.3 mm diam., margine integro vel lacerato, in sectione transversali 50-60 µm crasso. Stratum crystallinum 30-40 µm crassum. Stratum parietis 10-15 µm crassum, hypharis achromis. Periphysoidea 20-35 x 2-2.5 µm, non ramosa. Paraphyses filiformes, simplices, apice ad 2.5-3 µm incrassatae, in iodo non caerulescentes. Asci 60-80 x 3.5-5 µm, apice 1.5-3 µm crassi, 8-spori. Sporae fusiformae, 15-25 x 2.5-4 µm, 3 (-4) septatae.
Holotypus: PDD 41858 ex Collospermum hastatum (Col.) Skottsb.

Etymology: collospermi; refers to host plant.
Notes: Stictis quadrinucleata Sherwood, a species found in South America, has an ascocarp similar to S. collospermi, and also has 3-septate ascospores. S. collospermi differs in having longer ascospores, and in having paraphyses with swollen rather than propoloid tips. Stictis dealbata has similar sized and shaped ascospores, but differs in host substrate, in external appearance of the ascocarp, and in not having swollen paraphyses.

Holotype: New Zealand: AUCKLAND: Waitakere Ra., Fairy Falls Track, on Collospermum hastatum, P. R. Johnston, G. J. Samuels, J. M. Dingley, R. Korf, 14 Aug 1981 (PDD 41858).