MATERIAL EXAMINED: NEW ZEALAND, North Island, Auckland Region, Hunua Ranges, Wairoa-Cosseys Track, on decaying leaves of Freycinetia banksii, 9 May 1996, S.R. Whitton HKU(M)12854 (IFRD218-005). NOTES: Trichosphaerella decipiens is characterised by small (60–125 µm wide), globose, sessile perithecia, which have a periphysate ostiole. The ascomata have a few setae (18–90 µm long, 3.5–10 µm wide at the base), and the associated anamorph is Acremonium-like. The asci are 20–42 × 4–10 µm and the ascospores disarticulate at maturity into part-spores (2–3 µm diam) Samuels and Barr (1997) for T. decipiens; no taxonomically significant differences were observed.