Fruit body -6 , cm high, caespitose to solitary, flesh dull pink-fawn, basal region whitish, tough when fresh, drying horny fuscous with paler tips: branch¬ing polychotomous and expanded at first, finally dichotomous; branches often terete, especially the ultimates which are subparallel and taper to fine pointed tips, or in some shorter stouter plants flattened with more rounded, blunter tips. Spores 7-11 x 5-7 (-7.7) µm white, smooth, thin walled with granular contents, bluntly ellipsoid to lachrymiform; apicule subterminal –1.6 µm. Basidia 1, 2 or 4 spored, 60-95 µm long x 10-11 µm wide, tapering to 3-4 µm at base, cruciately subseptate, septa extending 4-9µm down into basidia, clamped at base sterigmata 6-14 µm long x 2-5 µm, tapered, erect with a slight outward curvature. Some sterigmata elongate, forming hypha-like projections 1.7 µm wide, with rounded ends. (In specimen No. 114 some old basidia up to 94 µm long, embedded in. the thickening hymenium, had become once or twice septate; c.f. some Clavulina species. No young basidia were septate. ) Hymenium thickening –95 µm composed of mature basidia and narrow un¬expanded hyphal ends mostly derived from the elongation of old sterigmata; absent from base of the stem. Hyphae 2.5-3.5 µm wide, monomitic, not inflated, clamped, walls slightly thickened.

DISTRIBUTION: Bay of Islands, and Wellington, New Zealand, also Brazil and Sumatra (Corner, 1953, p. 350).

COLLECTION: Kew Herbarium, under Lachnocladium flagelliforme, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.