Sori (Fig. 1) in the capsules destroying the seeds and filling the capsules with a black, first agglutinated, later granular-powdery mass of spore balls, inconspicuous,lacrymiform, acute, c. 2 mm long and 1 mm wide at their base, hidden by the somewhat spreading floral envelopes. Infection systemic, all capsules of a plant being smutted. Spore balls (Fig.2, 3) variable in shape and size, globose, ovoid, ellipsoidal, elongated or irregular, (30-)40-80 x 40-120(-140) µm, dark olivaceous brown, opaque,composed of tens to maybe more than one hundred spores which separate easily by pressure. Spores (Fig. 2, 3) variable in shape and size, irregular, rounded or elongated, polyangular or subpolyangular,often with acute tips and also with an acute edge along the meeting line of two flattened sides, 10.5-14.5 x 12-19(-22) µm, olivaceous-brown; wall 1.5-4(-5) µm thick, uneven, thickest at the angles, apparently smooth, in SEM inner spores and contact sides smooth, free surface finely and sparsely verruculose, and partly also covered by remnants of sporogeneous hyphae as irregular squamae.

HOST: On Restionaceae: Apodasmia similis (Edgar)B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson (= Leptocarpus similisEdgar). Known only from the type collection.

Sori in capsulis, semina destruentes, et capsulas massa nigra, primo agglutinata, serius granulosopulvere aglomerulorum sporarum implentes, inconspicui,lacrymiformes, acuti, c. 2 mm longi et ad basin 1 mm lati, involucris floralibus aliquantum expansis occulti. Infectio systemica, capsulae omne seiusdem plantae robiginosae. Glomeruli sporarum forma et magnitudine varii, globosi, ovoidei, ellipsoidales, elongati vel irregulares, (30-)40-80 x 40-120 (-140) µm, atro-olivaceobrunnei, opaci, e pluries decem, possibiliter usque plusquam unum centum sporis, pressu leviter separabilibus compositi. Sporae forma et magnitudine variae, irregulares, rotundae vel elongatae, polyangulares vel subpolyangulares, saepe apicibus acutis, et etiam margine secundum lineam tangentialem laterum duorum deplanatorum instructae, 10.5-14.5 x 12-19(-22) µm, olivaceobrunneae; pariete 1.5-4(-5) µm crasso, inaequali, adangulos maxime incrassato, conspicue levi, sub SEM sporae internae et latera contingentia levia, superficies liberae subtiliter, distanter verruculosae et partim residuis hypharum sporogenearum sicut squamulis irregularibus coopertae.

TYPUS (hic designatus): in matrice Apodasmia similis(Edgar) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson (= Leptocarpus similis Edgar, det. B. H. Macmillan), Nova Zelanda, Insula Chatham Islands, pr. Pakauwera, 43°45¢S, 176°29¢W, alt. c. 10 m.s.m., 5.IV.1993, leg.E. H. C. McKenzie et P. R. Johnston. Holotypus: PDD 68681; isotypus: Herbario Ustil. Vánky, HUV18548.