ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: HONG KONG, Hong Kong Island, Pokfulam, in forest off Hatton Road above The University of Hong Kong, on decaying leaves of Pandanus furcatus, S.R. Whitton, 25 Aug 1997, HKU(M) 13096. NEW ZEALAND, Auckland, Hunua Ranges, Waharau Regional Park, on decaying leaves of Freycinetia banksii, S.R. Whitton, 23 May 1996, HKU(M) 13097.

Colonies effuse, hairy, spreading over the substrate surface, visibly white, with conidiophores terminated by black, spherical spore masses. Mycelium immersed. Stroma none. Conidiophores 58-272 µm long, 3.5-13.5 µm wide towards the base, macronematous, mononematous, singular or in groups, branched, erect, straight or curved, smooth, typically hyaline towards the base, sometimes becoming pale grey towards the apex, cylindrical or very slightly tapered towards the apex, slightly enlarged at the apex, 1-8-septate, walls greatly thickened especially towards the base, walls narrowing in thickness towards the apex, septa thickened but not as greatly as the walls, enlarged apex gives rise to a whorl of phialides. Conidiogenous cells enteroblastic, monophialidic, discrete, terminal, determinate, ellipsoidal to clavate, smooth, pale grey, aseptate, apex rounded, forming a whorl at the apex of the conidiophores, 4-14 per whorl, 10-15 x 4-6 µm. Conidia 7.5-10.5 x 7-10.5 µm, aggregated in slimy, black, glistening heads at the apices of the conidiogenous cells, initially ellipsoidal, becoming broadly ellipsoidal or broadly clavate to almost spherical at maturity, apical end broadly rounded, basal end typically with a single papilla, black, aseptate, verrucose.

DISTRIBUTION: Hong Kong, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Known to inhabit decaying leaves of Freycinetia banksii and Pandanus furcatus.

Coloniae effusae, albae. Mycelium immersum. Conidiophora macronematosa, mononematosa, solitaria vel fasciculata, ramosa, erecta, recta vel curvata, laevia, hyalina vel pallide grisea, 58-272 µm longa, basi 3.5-13.5 µm, cylindrica, 1-8-septata. Cellulae conidiogenae monophialidicae, discretae, 4-14 in verticillo dispositae, ellipsoidae vel clavatae, 10-15 x 4-6 µm, pallide griseae. Conidia in massis globosis aggregata, ellipsoida, late ellipsoida, late clavata vel globosa, nigra, verrucosa, eseptata, 7.5-10.5 x 7-10.5 µm; apice rotundata, basi papillate.

HOLOTYPUS (hic designatus): Wellington, north of Paraparaumu, Nikau Reserve, on decaying leaves of Freycinetia banksii, S.R. Whitton, 2 Jun 1996, HKU(M) 13098.