Dacrydium cupressinum Sol. Wellington. Botanical Gardens, March 1927, G.H.C.

Hymenophore annual, sessile, dimidiate, imbricate, hard and woody. Pileus applanate, to 12 cm. x 11 cm. x 6-16 mm.; surface rugulose, veined, and radiately striate, finely tomentose, zoned near the margin, bay brown to fawn, cuticle a somewhat indefinite layer 50-75 µ thick, of densely compacted palisade hyphae with rounded inflated ends; margin abruptly rounded, 4-5 mm. thick, vaguely zoned, entire; hymenial surface even, ochraceous, with a sterile margin 5-10 mm. broad, dissepiments not toothed. Context to 15 mm. thick, straw colour or pallid ochre, hard, firm, caseous, densely woven; skeletal hyphae 3-5 µ thick, lumen almost obliterated, bovista type, freely branched, branches tapering, aseptate, not staining; generative hyphae 3-4 µ thick, thin-walled, branched, septate, with clamp connections, staining; lactiferous ducts to 8 µ thick, thin-walled, contents staining deeply. Pores rounded or oval, 0.5-1 mm. deep, pallid ochre or straw colour, 100-500 µ diameter, or 2-3 per mm.; dissepiments 100-600 µ thick, equal, apex even. Basidial type clavate, basidia subclavate or cylindrical, 12-16 x 3-4 µ, soon collapsing. Spores subglobose, ovate, less commonly globose, 5-7 x 5-6 µ, echinulate, spines 0.5 µ long, hyaline, abundant.

Growing imbricate upon dead standing stumps, associated with a white rot.