COLLECTIONS: New Zealand, (1-3) Canterbury Dist., near Little River, Okitu Valley, 17.V.1963, S. J. Hughes; (1) on Hoheria angustifolia, PDD 21027 (DAOM 110037); (2,3) on unidentified wood, PDD 21030 (DAOM 110038), PDD 21055 (DAOM 93533 b); (4) Auckland Province, Epsom, on Viburnum sp., 13.1.1963, S. Davison, PDD 20491 (DAOM 93848 b).

Colony effuse, brown, hairy, covered with white masses of conidia. Conidiophores solitary or loosely aggregated, composed of phialides sessile and borne directly on mycelium or on a few-celled stalk which is 33-54 µm long and 4.5-5.5 µm wide at the base, pale brown to brown. Phialides lageniform, 25.5-48 µm long, composed of an ellipsoidal venter 10-16.5 x 5.5-7.5 µm and a cylindrical collarette 19-29.5 x 2-3 µm, wall smooth. Phialoconidia cylindrical, with obtuse ends, 1-septate, hyaline, smooth-walled, 12-17 x 2-2.5 µm; seen singly or in easily dispersible chains.

HABITAT: on rotten wood of Hoheria angustifolia, Viburnum sp., and of unidentified hosts.

Coloniae effusae, brunneae, velutinae, massis albidis conidiorum obtectae. Conidiophora solitaria vel laxe aggregata, ex phialidibus sessilibus proxime super mycehis portatis aut super stipitibus pauci-cellularibus et 33-54 µm long; 4.5-5.5 µm lat. in basi composita, pallide brunnea ad brunnea. Phialides lagemformes, 25.5-48 µm long., ex ventere unico ellipsoideo, 10-16.5 x 5.5-7.5 µm et collo unico cylindrico 19-29.5 x 2-3 µm, compositae, laeviae. Phialoconidia cylindracea, extremitatibus obtusis, bicellularia, hyalina, laevia, 12-17 x 2-2.5 µm; singulatim vel in catenis facile secedentibus observata. HABITAT: in Hoheriae angustifoliae, specie indet. Viburni et in ligno. TYPUS: in ligno, U.S.A., New York, Lloyd Cornell Preserve, 6.IX.1952, S. J. Hughes, DAOM 29354.