Type: Corticolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata stromatic, perithecial, aggregated in clusters, globose, translucent reddish orange, 0.2–0.3 mm in diameter, ostiolate, superficial, on a pulvinate, erumpent stroma up to 2 mm in diameter; on stems. Asci clavate to elliptical, 30–50 × 5–10 μm. Ascospores fusiform, 1-septate, 8–14 × 2–4 μm, smooth, hyaline. Conidia elliptical to oval, 0-septate, 3–5 × 1–2 μm, smooth, hyaline, produced in slimy heads.

Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne, Nelson, Buller, Westland.; 1st Record: Dingley (1951: as Nectria ochroleuca).

Significance: Considered by Dingley (1969) to be a wound pathogen of minor economic importance. Occasionally recorded on Pinus radiata seedlings from Northland but of no economic significance to forestry.; Host(s): Beilschmiedia tawa, Brachyglottis repanda, Carmichaelia sp., Coprosma robusta, Cytisus scoparius, Dysoxylum spectabile, Escallonia rubra var. macrantha, Hedycarya arborea, Hoheria populnea, Lupinus arboreus, Malus ×domestica, Melicytus ramiflorus, Pinus radiata, Podalyria sp., Populus sp., Prunus persica, Psoralea sp., Rhopalostylis sapida, Robinia pseudoacacia, Salix fragilis, Sophora microphylla, Ulex europaeus.