CORNACEAE. Griselinia lucida: Auckland, Glen Esk Valley, Piha, 250 m, type collection, P.D.D. herbarium, No. 11442

Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent, effused forming numerous small elliptical colonies in bark crevices, 1-5 x 0.5-1.5 cm; hymenial surface white, velutinate, scantily creviced; margin thinning out, arachnoid, white, adherent. Context white, to 60 µ thick, basal layer delicate, of a few parallel hyphae, intermediate layer of scanty, mainly erect, short-celled hyphae; generative hyphae 3-3.5 µ diameter, walls 0.2 µ thick, often encrusted, freely septate, with clamp connections. Cystidia arising from the base of the intermediate layer and projecting for the greater part of their length, subulate with slightly inflated bases and long-acuminate apices, 110-190 x 10-14 µ, thick-walled, rugulose-roughened or etched, sometimes bearing a few crystals and enmeshed in delicate hyphal sheaths. Hymenial layer to 20 µ deep, a loose palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and cystidia. Basidia subclavate, 12-16 x 5-6 µ, bearing 4 spores, soon collapsing; sterigmata slender, to 4 µ long. Paraphyses subclavate, 8-12 x 4-5 µ. Spores broadly elliptical, ovate, obovate, sometimes flattened on one side, 5-6 x 4-5 µ, walls finely verruculose, hyaline, 0.5 µ, thick, soon collapsing.

TYPE LOCALITY: Glen Esk Valley, Auckland, New Zealand.
DISTRIBUTION: New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark of dead branches.

Close to T. gladiola, differing in the smaller basidia, smaller elliptical spores with finely verruculose walls, and absence of paraphysate hyphae.