Apothecia sparsa, erumpentia, subsessilia; disco ochraceo, 1 mm. lato; excipulo alba, pilis cylindraceis, scabriusculis, obtusis, septatis, 160 x 2.5-3 µ obtecto; asci clavati, octospori, apice rotundati jodo non tincti, 80-90 x 9 µ; ascosporae monostichae, ellipticae, hyalinae, continuae, 9-10.5 x 5-5.5 µ; paraphyses filiformes, ad apicem 2 µ crassae.

There seems to be little beyond the small size of the apothecia to differentiate this from Trichopeziza gallica (Karst. & Har.) Bond., described from an unnamed conifer in France. In view of the uncertainty regarding the substrate of the latter I have thought it advisable to provide a different specific epithet which will be clearly applicable to the New Zealand fungus, especially as the two fungi in question are literally poles asunder.

Ad corticem Phyllocladi alpini, 960 m., Arthur's Pass, Canterbury, 17.1.1956, Dingley 18990 (typus).

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] on reasonably intact bark of fallen branch. Kew also has duplicate of PDD 19377.

I have seen no material of this species which has been reported only from France. It was redescribed by Grelet (1951) and by Dharne (1965), the latter having reported the type host to be Larix decidua and cited a further collection on Abies pectinata. The New Zealand species TrichoscypheIla phyllocladi Dennis was compared with L. gallica by the author and considered to differ only in substrate and geographical distribution. The type material of T. phyllocladi indeed matches the description of L. gallica in all other respects, and there can be little doubt that they are closely related. The broadly rounded, thin-walled, undifferentiated ascus apex is characteristic of Perrotia to which genus both taxa are here considered to belong.