Type: Radicicolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata stromatic, perithecial, aggregated in groups of 5–50, deeply immersed and irregularly arranged in one to three layers in a pustulate, erumpent, yellowish orange to yellowish brown stroma, 1–5 mm in diameter, globose with long necks, the necks projecting 0.2–1 mm above the surface of the stroma, black, 0.2–0.5 mm in diameter, ostiolate; on roots. Asci oblong, 40–50 × 7 μm. Ascospores subelliptical, 1-septate, 7–11 × 3–5 μm, smooth, hyaline. Conidia oblong to cylindrical, 0-septate, 3–7 × 1–3 m, smooth, hyaline, but pale yellowish in mass.

Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Wellington, Nelson, Buller, Westland, Fiordland.; 1st Record: Gilmour (1966a: as Endothia tropicalis).

Significance: Common on root cankers of Elaeocarpus spp. but of no significance (Dingley 1969).; Host(s): Elaeocarpus dentatus, E. hookerianus.