MID CANTERBURY: Kowai Bush, on dead wood of Nothofagus solandri var. cliffortioides, anamorph and teleomorph present, 8 Apr 2001, PDD 74117; Kowai Bush, dead wood, 26 May 2002, PDD 76596; Travis Wetland, dead branch of Salix caprea, 6 Feb 2004, PDD 79889.

This description applies to the anamorphic Aegerita state. On the underside of decorticated wood in damp and semi-submerged conditions. The propagules are easily detached from the substratum, white, granular, spherical, reaching 400 µm diam. Microscopically they are seen to consist of a shell of smooth subglobose to pyriform cells 12–20 × 10–15 µm, surrounding a hyphal cortex. Clamp connections are present on the stalk cells. Colonies are sometimes accompanied by the Bulbillomyces state. See Eriksson & Ryvarden (1976) and Breitenbach & Kränzlin (1986) for descriptions and illustrations of both states from European material.

New record from New Zealand. The anamorph (Aegerita candida) of the resupinate, corticioid basidiomycete, Bulbillomyces farinosus, is common (in Europe at least) on rotten, decorticated wood in damp conditions.