Type: Corticolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata stromatic, perithecial, solitary or aggregated in small groups, globose, reddish brown or orange-yellow becoming reddish brown, smooth to slightly rough, 0.2–0.6 mm in diameter, ostiole papillate and surrounded by a flattened disc, superficial, on a loose, brown pseudostroma (mammoidea-type), on a weakly-developed, barely erumpent, dark-coloured stroma (pinea-type), or on a pulvinate, erumpent, brown stroma 2–6 mm in diameter (tasmanica-type); on bark on stems. Asci cylindrical, 75–120 × 6–11 µm. Ascospores elliptical, 1-septate, 12–22 × 5–10 µm, smooth to spinulose, hyaline to light brown. Macroconidia cylindrical, 3–6-septate, 45–80 × 4–7 µm, smooth, hyaline. Microconidia not known. DISTRIBUTION Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Wellington, Buller, Westland, Fiordland, Kaikoura, Otago Lakes, Stewart Island.

; 1st Record: Dingley (1951).

Notes: Samuels et al. (1990) and Mantiri et al. (2001) synonymised these species, on the basis of morphological, cultural, and molecular analyses. A composite description is provided, based on New Zealand collections.

Significance: None. Ouellette (1972) regarded N. pinea as a saprobe.; Host(s): Aristotelia serrata, Beilschmiedia tawa, Brachyglottis repanda, B. rotundifolia, Coprosma foetidissima, C. grandifolia, C. lucida, Cordyline australis, Dacrydium cupressinum, Dysoxylum spectabile, Freycinetia baueriana subsp. banksii, Fuchsia excorticata, Griselinia littoralis, G. lucida, Hoheria populnea, Leucopogon fasciculatus, Melicytus lanceolatus, M. ramiflorus, Muehlenbeckia australis, M. complexa, Myrsine australis, Nothofagus sp., Olearia avicenniifolia, Pinus radiata, Pittosporum colensoi, Pittosporum sp., Plagianthus regius, Podocarpus sp., Prumnopitys ferruginea, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Rhopalostylis sapida, Ripogonum scandens, Schefflera digitata, Sophora microphylla, Weinmannia racemosa.