Herb. HK. ZT 69/74: 'Between mosses on bark of Schefflera digitata, Hari-Hari, Westland, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 15.11.1969'. - Herb. HK. ZT 69/237: 'On rotten wood, Shallow Bay, Lake Manapouri, Fjordland N.P., N.Z.; leg. Horak, 6.IV.1969'.

Pileus 3-10 mm diam., ear-shaped, flabelliform or conchiform, convex, whitish or greyish, hygrophanous, dry, striate, radially fibrillose or silky. Lamellae excentrically or laterally radiating, densely intermixed, pink when young turning beige-pink, with concolorous gill edge. Stipe always developed, eccentric or laterally inserted, cylindrical, curved, white, glabrous. Context greyish. Odor and taste strongly farinaceous.
Spores 8-9 x 6-7.5 µm. 5-6-angled. Basidia 27-36 x 10-12 µm. 4 spored. Cheilocystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (6-14 µm diam.), membrane thin-walled, not gelatinized. without conspicuous pigmentation. Clamp connections lacking

On rotten bark (Schefflera digitata) and wood. New Zealand, Europe, North America.

It seems that Claudopus depluens (Fr.) firstly mentioned for New Zealand by Colenso (1893) is identical with Cl. byssisedus (Fr.) described above. In spite of a thorough study no apparent differences were found between the microscopical and macroscopical characters of Claudopus byssisedus (Fr.) collected in Europe or North America (Hesler 1967: 16) and the material gathered in New Zealand.