Additional specimens examined: NEW ZEALAND: Auckland, Franklin County, Hunua Ranges, Mangatangi Hill Rd, on decorticated wood, Dingley et al., 17 Apr. 1973 (PDD 34935, Samuels 73-30), Waitemata County, Waitakere Ranges, data as holotype (PDD 34936, Samuels 74-135).

Mycelium a ring of white hyphae around each perithecial base or not visible. Perithecia solitary or in groups of a few; white; globose to pyriform, 150-250µm in diam.; with an apical, sometimes slightly stellate, disc; collapsing by lateral pinching or not collapsing when dry, not changing colour in 3% potassium hydroxide. Perithecial wall 15-25 µm wide. Surface view: textura intricata, walls of cells 1-2 µm thick. Longitudinal section: outer region c. 10 µwide, cells elliptic, 3-5 x 2-3 µm, walls of cells 1-2 µm thick; inner region 5-10 µm wide, cells tangentially compressed, 5-7 x 2-3 µm, walls 0.5-1 µm thick. Ostiolar disc 150-200 µm in diam., composed of agglutinated hyphae arising from the outer region of the perithecial wall; hyphae branched, septate with walls 1-2µm thick; groups of hyphae sometimes growing outwardly from the disc to form short, triangular hairs. Ostiolar canal piercing the ostiolar disc, periphysate. Asci clavate, (50-) 60-80 (-87) x (6-) 8-10 (-11) µm, 8-spored; apices rounded, simple, or with a poorly visible ring; bases rounded or pedicellate; ascospores forming throughout the length. Ascospores clavate, tapering from the rounded apical end to the pointed basal end or fusiform, (25-) 27-32 (-37) x 3.5-4 µm, 7-8-septate, smooth, not constricted at the septa, hyaline.
Characteristics in culture: Colony characteristics: CMD, 1-2cm; ME and PDA, 1-1.5 cm. Aerial mycelium lacking or sparse, white. Surface of colony on PDA shining and wrinkled. Colonies non-pigmented. Conidia forming within 2 weeks. Conidiophores arising from the surface of the colony, bearing a single phialide, unbranched (1-) 2-3-septate, straight, smooth, 70-135 (-170) µm long, (1.5-) 2-3 µm wide basally, subtending hypha 1.5-3 µm wide. Phialides (35-) 50-70 (-135) µm long, 1.5-2 µm wide at the unflared tip. Conidia cylindrical with rounded to pointed ends, 0-7-septate with 3-septate conidia predominating, (15-) 19-25 (-28) x 2-3µm, without a basal abscission scar; held in a hyaline drop of liquid.

Habitat: On decaying leaves and decorticated wood.

Perithecia 150-250 µm diametro, globosa vel pyriformia, alba, appendiculis brevibus, pluricellularibus, planatis, triangularibus et hyalinis vestita; asci cylindrici vel fusiformes, 60-80 x 8-10 µm; ascosporae 7-8-septatae, clavatae, 27-32 x 3.5-4µm, hyalinae. HOLOTYPUS: PDD 34934. Conidial state: Cylindrocarpon sp.

Holotype: NEW ZEALAND: Auckland, Waitemata County, Waitakere Ranges, vic. Piha, Marowhara Loop Track, on dead leaf of Phormium tenax, Dingley et al., 17 Dec. 1974 (PDD 34934, Samuels 74-140).