Material examined. NEW ZEALAND, North Island, Manawatu Region, Manawatu Gorge Scenic Reserve, on dead leaves of Freycinetia banksii, 30 Apr. 1997, S.R. Whitton (HKU(M) 5008, holotype).

Ascomata immersed, visible as a small, blackened, circular zone, with a central, blackened, raised papilla, dark-brown, coriaceous, clustered or mostly solitary (Fig. a); in vertical section 150-254 µm diam., 172-260 µm high, globose (Fig. b). Clypeus 125-225 µm diam., comprising a small amount of dark-brown, intracellular hyphae and host cells directly surrounding the erumpent papilla (Fig. b). Peridium 20-36 µm wide, comprising 6-8 layers of compressed cells, walls hyaline at the inside, and blackish-brown and thick-walled towards the outside (Fig. b). Paraphyses filamentous, flexuose, hyaline, numerous, septate and embedded in a gelatinous matrix (Fig. c). Asci 92-114 x 12-16 µm ( = 98.6 ´ 14.7 µm, n = 15), 8-spored, cylindrical, unitunicate, short-pedicellate, apically rounded, lacking any visible apical apparatus (Figs. c, d). Ascospores 11.5-18 x 9-12 ´ 7.5-9 µm (14.3 x 10.2 x 7.8 µm, n = 25), uniseriate to overlapping uniseriate, broadly ellipsoidal, with both ends rounded, narrower in side view, pale-brown at immature, dark-brown at mature, unicellular, lacking a mucilaginous sheath, germ slit straight, 6-8.2 µm long (Figs. e-i).

Known distribution: New Zealand.

Known host: Freycinetia (Pandanaceae).

Ascomata 150-254 µm diam., 172-260 µm alta, immersa, globosa, ostiolata, clypeata. Asci 92-114 x 12-16 µm, deficio apicali apparatu. Ascosporae 11.5-18 x 9-12 x 7.5-9 µm, late ellipsoideae, fissura germinativa directa, abbreviata.