Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata apothecial, in groups, seldom solitary, sessile, cup-shaped but narrowed at the base, circular in outline, disc concave to flat, black, 0.3–0.5 mm in diameter; on fern fronds. Asci not numerous, clavate, 50–65 × 8–12 μm. Ascospores ellipsoid, 0-septate, 15–18 × 6–8 μm, hyaline, finally becoming light brown. Paraphyses dark brown, with apices joined together to form an epithecium.

Distribution: Wellington.; 1st Record: Gadgil & Dick (2000b).

Significance: Found in a 1 ha patch of umbrella fern where dieback was observed. Pathogenicity has not been demonstrated.; Host(s): Sticherus cunninghamii.

Apothecia black, cup-shaped, finally patelliform, sessile but narrowed at the base, gregarious, seldom solitary, circular in outline, glabrous, 300-500 µm in diameter. Excipulum pseudoparenchymatous, composed of dark brown cuboid, thin-walled cells arranged in irregularly radiating rows. Inner wall of apothecium of brown to hyaline parallel hyphae. Asci not numerous, clavate, 50-65 x 8-12 µm. Ascospores uniseriate, ellipsoid, hyaline, finally pale brown, 0-septate, straight, 15-18 x 6-8 µm. Paraphyses numerous, filiform, joined together at the base but divergent later, dark brown, apices sub-globose; the apices of the paraphyses join together to form an epithecium.

Apothecia atra, cupulata denique patelliformia, sessilia, ad basim constricta, gregaria interdum solitaria, ambitus orbicularia, glabra, 300-500 µm diametera. Discus planus vel concavus. Excipulum pseudoparenchymaticum, ex cellulis atrobrunneis, muris tenuibus, cubicis, in series irregulariter distincte radiantes compositum. Paries interiorem apothecii ex hyphis brunneis vel hyalinis parallele compositus. Asci subnumerosi, clavati, 50-65 x 8-12 µm. Ascosporae monoseriatae, ellipsoidae, hyalinae, denique pallide brunnae, 0-septatae, rectae, 15-18 x 6-8 µm. Paraphyses numerosae, filiformes, plerumque complures conglutinatae, sursum divergentes atrobrunnae, ad apicem subglobosae. Epithecium ex apicibus paraphysibus conglutinatis compositum.

Habitat in pinnulis vivis Sticheri cunninghamii (Heward) Ching, Big Huia Ridge, Orongorongo Forest (WN), 18.iii.1999, R.Blake & B.Rogan, NZFRI-M 3964 holotypus.