ARAUCARIACEAE. Agathis australis: Auckland, Waipoua Kauri Forest, 160 m; Puketi Forest, Bay of Islands; Parahaki, Whangarei, 140 m; Upper Piha Valley, 300 m; Anawhata Road, Waitakere Ranges, 300 m; Karekare, 120 m; Spragues Hill, Henderson Valley, 120 m; Otau, Hunua Ranges, 300 m. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus menziesii: Auckland, Lake Waikareiti Track, 930 m. PODOCARPACEAE. Dacrydium cupressinum: Wellington, Lake Papaitonga, 20 m. Westland, Hokitika Gorge. Phyllocladus trichomanoides: Auckland, Parahaki, Whangarei, 210 m. Podocarpus spicatus: Auckland, Waipoua Kauri Forest, 200 m; Te Whaiti, 600 m. UNKNOWN HOSTS. Auckland, Huia, 200 m. Wellington, Ohakune Track, Mt. Ruapehu, 750 m. New South Wales, Mt. Wilson (Lloyd 158 as Polyporus anebus). Victoria, Hawthorn; Mt. St Leonards; Wallaby Creek.

IN. KEW HERBARIUM: Collections are "N.Z., Colenso, b 13" type collection, filed under Polystictus exigis; "N.Z., Colenso, b 524" filed by Cooke under Polystictus sector; "N.Z., Colenso" filed under Polystictus drummondii; and "Vic., Gippsland, Webb" which Cooke placed under Polyporus fragilis; "N.Z., Wellington, T. Kirk, No. 31", under P. stipitarius.

Recognised by the small flabelliform pilei attached by small lateral stem-like bases, white surface when fresh drying from dingy white through tan or chestnut to umber, moderately sized irregular pores, small elliptical spores, and generative hyphae radiately arranged. Plants commonly grow upon sides or surfaces of fallen decayed logs, upright stems and not infrequently on charred wood, often among mosses. They may range in length from 2 to 15 mm. In a few specimens they are pezizaeform and attached by a narrow vertex, then resembling Tyromyces catervatus. From the latter these forms may be separated by the entire dissepiments and elliptical spores. The type collection was sent to Kew herbarium by Colenso and by Cooke named Polyporus exiguis, and this name was published by Colenso as - "P. exiguis sp. nov. A small semistipitate flabellate whitish fungus, of horizontal growth, among mosses, on the bark of old trees near their bases: wet woods ... near Norsewood, 1883, W.C." Two years later it was more formally described by Cooke under the name Polystictus exiguis Cke. If Colenso's description is regarded as valid, for the period, then the species may be cited as Tyromyces exiguis (Col.); if not, then it should be T. exiguis (Cke.) and the place of publication of the combination, this volume.

LOCALITY: Norsewood, Hawke's Bay.