ARALIACEAE. Neopanax arboreum: Taranaki, Dawson Falls, Mt. Egmont, 1,000 m; North Mt. Egmont, 900 m. COMPOSITAE. Senecio elaeagnifolius: Taranaki, Mt. Egmont, 1,000 m. CONIFERAE. Pinus radiata: South Australia, Mt. Burr forest. CORNACEAE. Griselinia littoralis: Otago, Lake Wilkie, Catlins, 30 m. CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Westland, Mt. Hercules Reserve; Otago, Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island; Ryans Creek, Stewart Island. ELAEOCARPACEAE. Aristotelia serrata: Auckland, Otau, Hunua Ranges, 300 m; Shaw Road, Oratia, 30 m; Lake Okataina, 420 m; Mamaku Forest, 600 m. Wellington, Ohakune, 850 m. Nelson, Staircase Creek, Reefton, 700 m. Westland, Waiho, 200 m. Otago, Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus cliffortioides: Wellington, Kaimanawa Ranges, 950 m. Nelson, Lake Rotoiti, 700 m. Otago, Routeburn Valley, 400 m. Nothofagus fusca: Nelson, Staircase Creek, Reefton, 700 m; Lake Rotoiti, 700 m; Murchison, 200 m; Ahaura, 120 m; Totara Flat, 80 m. Nothofagus menziesii: Hawke's Bay, Upper Homestead, Poronui, 700 m. Otago, Alton Valley, Tuatapere, 200 m; Maclennan, Catlins, 200 m. ICACINACEAE. Pennantia corymbosa: Westland, Weheka, 200 m. MELIACEAE. Dysoxylum spectabile: Auckland, Waikaretu, 200 m. MONIMIACEAE. Hedycarya arborea: Auckland, Te Moehau, Coromandel Peninsula, 200 m. MYRTACEAE. Leptospermum scoparium: Auckland, Huia, 25-60 m. RUBIACEAE. Coprosma arborea: Auckland, Little Barrier Island. Coprosma australis: Auckland, Anawahata Road, Waitakere Ranges, 300 m. Coprosma foetidissima: Otago, Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island, 30 m; Lake Wilkie, Catlins. UNKNOWN HOST. Western Australia, Pemberton.

Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent, effused forming elliptical areas to 14 x 4 cm; hymenial surface white, then cream, coarsely areolately creviced; margin thinning out, white or cream, arachnoid, adherent. Context white, 180-250 µm thick, basal layer narrow, of parallel hyphae, intermediate layer of loosely intertwined hyphae branched at a wide angle, becoming pseudoparenchymatous; generative hyphae 4-8 µm, commonly 5-6 µm diameter, walls 0.5- µm thick, naked, with large clamp connections. Gloeocystidia arising from the upper part of the intermediate layer, flexuous-cylindrical, some submoniliform, 40-96 x 4-8 µm, some projecting to 15 µm. Hymenial layer to 50 µm deep, a close palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and gloeocystidia. Basidia subclavate, 20-32 x 4-6 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata slender, to 6 µm long. Paraphyseq subclavate, 18-20 x 4-5 µm. Spores elliptical, 6-8 x 2.5-3 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: North America, Australia, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark of dead branches.

Readily recognised by the stout, moderately thick-walled hyphae branching at a wide angle and becoming corymbose beneath the hymenium, long and slender gloeocystidia arising in the context and passing to the surface of the hymenium, moderately sized spores, and white or cream, membranous hymenophore. In some collections gloeocystidia are flexuous-cylindrical, in others submoniliform, in others again both types may be present. Although sometimes difficult to find they are always present and readily seen near margins.

TYPE LOCALITY: North Dakota, U.S.A.