[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Gregarious, narrowed below into a short stem-like base, clavate and closed at first, then expanding and becoming pear-shaped, 2-3 mm. across; disc concave, pale yellow, externally tawny, densely clothed with septate, obtuse, cylindrical, brown, thin-walled hairs, 60-80 x 4-5 µ, usually rough with minute particles of lime; hairs forming the margin longer and pale, except at the tip;. excipulum parenchymatous, cells 6-9 µ diameter; asci clavate; apex broad and very obtuse-tapering below into a slender, usually crooked pedicel, wall thick except at the alpex, 8-spored; spores arranged in a parallel bundle, very long and narrowly clavate, apex 5 µ thick, rounded and gradually tapering to the pointed base, multiseptate, hyaline, smooth, straight or sliightly curved, 85-95 µ long; paraphyses septate, hyaline, not thickened at the tip, 2 ½ - 3 µ thick.

New Zealand.

On dead wood and bark.

A very beautiful species, superficially resembling Lachnella pulverulentia, but rather larger, and with very different spores. Allied to Erinella lutea Phil., a native of Victoria, but differing in the very broadly rounded apex of the ascus and the narrowly clavate spore.