CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Westland, Pukekura, 50 m. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus cliffortioides: Wellington, Horopito, 500 m. Nothofagus fusca: Nelson, Orwell Creek, Ahaura. Nothofagus menziesii: Otago, Alton Valley, Tuatapere, 150 m. FILICALES. Dicksonia squarrosa: Auckland, Waiomu Valley, Thames, 100 m. MYRTACEAE. Leptospermum scoparium: Auckland, Te Moehau, Coromandel Peninsula, 200 m. RUTACEAE. Phebalium nudum: Auckland, Waipoua Kauri Forest, 200 m. SAXIFRAGACEAE. Quintinia serrata: Westland, Pukekura, 35 m.

Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent; effused forming irregular areas to 5: x 3 cm; hymenial surface cream or pallid ochre, even, not creviced; margin thinning out, fibrillose, concolorous, adherent. Context white, to 90 µm thick, basal layer narrow, of parallel hyphae, intermediate layer scanty, of intertwined hyphae associated with numerous dichophyses and scattered masses of crystals; generative hyphae 2-2.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, naked, with clamp connections. Gloeocystidia scanty, confined to the hymenial region, projecting 10-25 µm, fusiform with long acuminate apices, or aculeate, 32-60 x 5-7 µm. Dichophyses scattered in the context and massed in the hymenial layer, 2-3 times dichotomously branched, terminating in ;long, aculeate, curved or straight ends. Hymenial layer to 30 µm deep, a close palisade of basidia, paraphyses, gloeocystidia, and dichophyses. Basidia cylindrical or ventricose-cylindrical, 12-24 x 4-6 µm, projecting to 10 µm, bearing 2-4 spores; sterigmata slender, erect, to 6 µm long. Paraphyses scanty, mainly obclavate or fusiform, 8-14 x 3.5-4 µm. Spores commonly subglobose, some broadly obovate, apiculate, 3.5-4 x 3-3.5 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm, thick.

DISTRIBUTION: Western Europe, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark of dead branches and trunks.

Separated from other species by the small spores, small ventricose-cylindrical basidia, aculeate or fusiform scanty gloeocystidia confined to the hymenial layer, and narrow hyphae. Spores vary appreciably in shape; most are subglobose with apiculi, others broadly obovate with rounded or abruptly acuminate apices (Fig. 56, a). Collections listed agree with a specimen examined in Kew herbarium, ex "Dermo, France" differing mainly in the presence of abundant crystals in the base of the context.

TYPE LOCALITY: Aveyron, France.