Helotium brevisporum Cooke & Phillips in Grevillea 8, 63 (Dec. 1879).

Apothecia scattered, superficial, subsessile; disc flat, up to 3 mm. across, ochraceous, with a low obtuse margin; receptacle saucer-shaped, paler than the disc, smooth, with a short stout stalk, largely immersed in the substrate. Excipulum of parallel hyphae lying at a moderate angle to the surface, 4-5 µ wide, with rather thick hyaline walls; flesh of loosely woven hyaline hyphae, stained brown in the base of the stalk only. Asci cylindric-clavate, about 75 x 6 µ, 8-spored, pore blued by Melzer's reagent; ascospores uniseriate, elliptical, 8-12 x 3-4 µ, becoming 1-septate. Paraphyses cylindrical, 2 µ wide. On decorticated wood.

NEW ZEALAND: Waitaki, S. Berggren 30b (Typus). Fig. 17.