Coprosma sp., on bark of dead standing branch. Westland. Lake Mapouriki, 350 feet, Nov. 1946, Joan Dingley, type collection.Hoheria glabrata Sprague & Summerh., on bark of fallen branch. Westland. Douglas Rock track, Copland Valley, 3,500 feet, Jan. 1947, G.H.C. Olearia avicenniaefolia (Raoul) Hook.f., on bark of dead standing branches. Westland. Fox River, Old Glacier track, 580 feet, Nov. 1946, Joan Dingley. Weinnmannia racimosa L.f., on decorticated fallen branch. Westland. Waiho Stream, 500 feet, Nov. 1946, Joan Dingley.

Hymenophore appearing as discrete orbicular areas to 1 cm. diameter,or linear when to 5 x 1 cm., 0.5-1.3 mm. thick, with several outlying islands, at first cream, becoming isabelline or bay brown; margin definite, to 1 mm. wide, white or polished, becoming abrupt or inturned, even, brown; surface even, glancing, dissepiments not toothed. Pores not in strata, round or slightly irregular (in young specimens a few at first navicular and to 1 mm. long), cream or isabelline in section, 0.3-1 mm. deep, 75-150 µ diameter, or 5-8 to mm.; dissepiments 25-50 µ thick, of densely woven hyphae, apices even, of closely compacted hyphae. Context white or cream, discoloured when old, 0.1-0.2 mm. thick, of densely woven hyphae, appearing almost sclerotioid; skeletal hyphae of the bovista type, freely branched, aseptate, 2.5-3 µ thick, lumen variable, from 1 µ to being almost obliterated, non-staining, walls thinner in dissepiments; generative hyphae 2 µ thick, branched, septate, staining, with clamp connections. Basidial type merulioid, basidia cylindrical, or subclavate, packed closely into a permanent palisade, 6-8 x 2-3 µ. Spores allantoid, 3-3.5 x 0.5-1 µ, hyaline, smooth.