COMPOSITAE. Brachyglottis repanda: Auckland, Rangitoto Island, 250 m. CORIARIACEAE. Coriaria arborea: Auckland, Rangitoto Island, 30 m. CUNONIACEAE. Weinmannia racemosa: Auckland, Lake Okataina, 500 m. Otago, Ryans Creek, Stewart Island. ELAEOCARPACEAE. Aristotelia serrata: Auckland, Kaimai Ranges, 700 m. FAGACEAE. Nothofagus truncata: Auckland, Little Barrier Island, 100 m. LAURACEAE. Beilschmiedia tarairi: Auckland, Te Moehau, Coromandel Peninsula, 200 m. Beilschmiedia tawa: Auckland, Scenic Drive, Waitakere Ranges, 300 m. MELIACEAE. Dysoxylum spectabile: Auckland, Little Barrier Island, 130 m. MYRTACEAE. Metrosideros excelsa: Auckland, Little Barrier Island, 200 m. Metrosideros robusta: Auckland, Titirangi, 250 m. VIOLACEAE. Melicytus ramiflorus: Auckland, Whites Stream, Piha, 10 m; Old Exhibition Drive, Waitakere Ranges, 300 m; Earthquake Flat, Rotorua, 500 m. Wellington, Bruces Reserve, Hunterville, 250 m; Ruahine Ranges, 350 m. UNKNOWN HOSTS. Auckland, Lake Waikaremoana, 600 m; Orakei Bush, 20 m; Parahaki, Whangarei, 250 m; Stony Creek, Henderson Valley, 200 m; Auckland Domain, 140 m; Purewa Bush, 30 m; Cascades, Waitakere Ranges, 250 m; Whitianga Road, Coromandel Peninsula, 300 m. Wellington, Whakatikei Forest Reserve, 100 m. New South Wales, Orange.

IN KEW HERBARIUM: Only two collections, ex "Tasmania, Archer" (type collection) and "N.S.W., Orange, J. B. Cleland, 18".

Hymenophore annual, adherent, membranous, forming irregularly linear areas 4-10 x 2-4 cm, 0.1-3 mm thick. Hymenial surface at first white, becoming cream or honey yellow with a glassy appearance, even, often creviced; margin adherent, thinning out when sterile, or in some specimens terminating abruptly in a fertile face, arachnoid, irregular. Pores not in strata, round or angular, often oblique, 6-9 per mm (6-7 when young), 100-200 µm diameter, to 2.5 mm deep; dissepiments 50-75 µm thick, not toothed, even, equal. Context white, 100-200 µm thick, a densely intertwined layer of hyphae embedding numerous crystals; generative hyphae 2-2.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, branched, septate, with abundant clamp connections, embedded in mucilage. Hymenial layer to 15 µm deep, a dense palisade of basidia and paraphyses embedded in mucilage. Basidia clavate, 8-12 x 3-4 µm bearing 4 spores; sterigmata erect, delicate, to 3 µm long. Paraphyses ovate, oval, or clavate, 6-10 x 3-3.5 µm, Spores allantoid, 3-4 x 0.75-1 µm walls smooth, hyaline, 0.1 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Decayed fallen branches and trunks, associated with a white rot.

Identified by the monomitic hyphal system, delicate hyphae, small allantoid spores, small pores, thin dissepiments, and glassy hymenophore which, when dry, resembles gristle. Dissepiments are often toothed and in old specimens frequently torn; or they may be concentrically crenulated as if they had grown in length at successive intervals.

TYPE LOCALITY: Tasmania.