ANACARDIACEAE. Plectomirtha baylisana: Auckland, Great King Island. ARALIACEAE. Neopanax simplex: Wellington, Totara Reserve, Pohangina Valley, 50 m. COMPOSITAE. Brachyglottis repanda: Auckland, Taneatua Reserve, 20 m, type collection, P.D.D. herbarium, No. 11484. CONIFERAE. Cupressus macrocarpa: Auckland, Campbells Bay, 75 m. CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Wellington, Blyth Track, Ohakune, 700 m. MONIMIACEAE. Hedycarya arborea: Auckland, Lake Okataina, 500 m. MYRTACEAE. Leptospermum ericoides: Wellington, Lake Papaitonga, 20 m.

Hymenophore annual, sometimes biennial, membranous, adherent, effused forming irregular linear areas 12-15 x 3-5 cm; hymenial surface dingy white or pallid cream, velutinate, not creviced; margin thinning out, membranous, adherent but sometimes tending to lift. Context white, 50-130 µ thick, basal layer narrow, of parallel hyphae, intermediate layer scanty, of densely compacted hyphae collapsed when old, many crystal encrusted; generative hyphae 2.5-4 µ diameter, walls 0.2 µ thick, some encrusted, with clamp connections. Cystidia arising from the base of the intermediate layer, projecting for the greater part of their length, subulate, 120-210 x 12-16 µ, bases rounded and inflated, apices long-acuminate, thick-walled, rugulose-roughened or etched, sometimes bearing a few crystals and enmeshed within sheaths of delicate hyphae. Hymenial layer to 35 µ deep, an irregular palisade of basidia, paraphyses, paraphysate hyphae, and cystidia. Basidia subclavate or subcylindrical, 20-25 x 7-9 µ, bearing 2-4 spores; stengmata arcuate, to 8 µ long. Paraphyses scanty, subclavate, 12-18 x 6-7 µ. Paraphysate hyphae abundant, projecting to 18 µ, 2-3 µ diameter, each bearing a cap of acicular crystals. Spores globose, subglobose, oval, or sometimes broadly elliptical, strongly apiculate, 7-11 x 6-9 µ, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µ thick.

TYPE LOCALITY: Taneatua Reserve, Auckland, New Zealand.
DISTRIBUTION: New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark of dead branches.

T. gladiola and T. hastata possess similar cystidia. These are subulate, project far beyond the delicate context, walls are thickened, become partly disorganised in solutions of potassium hydroxide, and are rugulose-roughened as if etched. Frequently they are enmeshed in hyphal sheaths.