Type: Corticolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata perithecial, scattered, stroma absent, globose, yellow-orange to red, warty, 0.4–0.5 mm in diameter, ostiole papillate, superficial; on bark on stems. Asci broadly cylindrical to clavate, 60–160 × 10–17 μm. Ascospores broadly elliptical to broadly fusiform, 1-septate, 20–30 × 10–14 μm, finely striate, yellow-brown. Macroconidia cylindrical, more or less falcate, 3–5-septate, 30–52 × 5–7 μm, smooth, hyaline, foot cell poorly developed. Microconidia ellipsoid, 0-septate, 6–9 × 2–3 μm, smooth, hyaline.

Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wellington, Gisborne, Westland, Marlborough Sounds, Southland.; 1st Record: Berkeley (1855: as Nectria illudens).

Significance: None. Probably saprobic.; Host(s): Beilschmiedia tawa, Corynocarpus laevigatus, Geniostoma rupestre var. ligustrifolium, Hoheria populnea, Melicytus ramiflorus, Metrosideros sp.