CONIFERAE. Podocatpus totara: Auckland, Upper Piha Valley, Waitakere Ranges, 300 m. CORIARIACEAE. Coriaria sarmentosa: Auckland, Titirangi, 250 m. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus fusca: Nelson, Murchison, 200 m. MIMOSACEAE. Acacia sp.: New South Wales, Mittagong. MYRTACEAE. Eucalyptus sp.: South Australia, National. Park. PROTEACEAE. Hakea saligna: Auckland, Campbells Bay, 70 m. RUBIACEAE. Coprosma australis: Auckland, Mamaku. Forest, 600 m. UNKNOWN HOSTS: New South Wales, Sydney; Lisarow; Bumbarra. South Australia, Mt. Lofty.

Hymenophore annual, ceraceous, adherent, effused forming linear areas to 20 x 4 cm; hymenial surface cream, becoming pinkish-buff, even, at length creviced; margin thinning out, somewhat pelliculose, cream, adherent. Context white, 100-500 µm thick, basal layer thick, of parallel compact hyphae, intermediate layer of erect hyphae compactly arranged and often cemented; generative hyphae 3-4 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, naked, with clamp connections. Hymenial layer to 40 µm deep, a dense palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and scanty paraphysate hyphae. Basidia subclavate, 25-35 x 7-9 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata slender, to 6 µm long. Paraphyses.subclavate, 14-22 x 6-7 µm. Paraphysate hyphae cylindrical, to 4 µm diameter, projecting to 20 µm. Spores globose or subglobose, apiculate, 6-8 µm diameter, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.5 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: Western Europe, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark of dead branches.

Close to C. confluens, differing mainly in the nearly spherical smaller spores, small basidia, and subclavate paraphyses. In macrofeatures they are almost identical.

TYPE LOCALITY: Virarlberg, Austria.