ARALIACEAE. Neopanax arboreum: Auckland, Mountain Road, Henderson Valley, 250 m.LAURACEAE. Beilschmiedia tarairi: Auckland, Smiths Bush, Takapuna. Beilschmiedia tawa: Auckland, Konini Road, Waitakere Ranges, 300 m.FAGACEAE. Nothofagus menziesii: Auckland, Lake Waikareiti, 600 m. MELIACEAE. Dysoxylum spectabile: Auckland, Huia, 30 m. MONIMIACEAE. Hedycarya arborea: Auckland, Kaiwaka, 30 m. MYRTACEAE. Eucalyptus globulus: Auckland, Orewa, 30 m. Eucalyptus spp.: New South Wales, National Park. South Australia, Mt. Lofty. Leptospermum scoparium: Auckland, Huia, 60 m; Mt. Te Aroha, 400 m. RANUNCULACEAE. Clematis paniculata: Wellington, Blyth Track, Ohakune, 850 m. ROSACEAE. Rubus australis: Auckland, Otau, Hunua Ranges, 300 m;Lake Okataina, 500 m. Wellington, Kaimanawa Ranges, 950 m.

Hymenophore annual, ceraceous, adherent, composed at first of numerous small colonies, soon merging to form linear areas to 25 x 10 cm; hymenial surface at first white, soon cream, then alutaceous, finally often pinkish-buff, following closely the surface of the substratum, sparsely creviced when old; margin thinning out, rather indefinite, byssoid, concolorous, adherent. Context white, 100-300 µm thick, basal layer stout, of parallel compact hyphae, intermediate layer of mainly erect compacted hyphae, sometimes with cavities at the base which may be packed with crystals; generative hyphae 3-4 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, naked, with clamp connections. Hymenial layer to 80 µm deep, a dense palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia subclavate, 40-60 x 6-9 µm, bearing 2-4 spores; sterigmata stout, to 8 µm long. Paraphyses cylindrical, somewhat scanty, 16-35 x 5-7 µm. Spores oval, subglobose, a few globose, apiculate, 7-11 x 6-9 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.5 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Great Britain, North America, West Indies, Africa, Australia, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark or decorticated wood of dead branches.

Numerous small colonies first appear and soon merge to form linear fructifications which may attain a length of 25 cm. Crystals are common in old specimens, usually lying between basal and intermediate layers, sometimes in lenticular or conical cavities. Old specimens are somewhat stratose, displaying two or three layers usually vaguely defined. Hyphal walls become partly gelatinised and pseudoparenchymatous. Surface colour varies from cream, argillaceous, alutaceous, to pinkish-buff. The species is separated from C. rickii by the large spores of different shape and larger basidia.

TYPE LOCALITY: Europe.