Flora of New Zealand Series

Holotype: New Zealand. Auckland, Mount Eden, on basalt boulders in boggy depressions among tufts of Chionochloa antarctica, Argopsis megalospora, 400 m, 31.xii.1962, P.W. James NZ85812 – BM. Isotypes – CHR, MB.

Description : Flora (1985: 541).

A: Mount Eden. Known only from two collections.

Endemic

Illustrations : Henssen & James (1982: 238, fig. 9; 240, fig. 12B; 241, fig. 13E; 242, fig. 14A; 243, fig. 15A, B; 254, fig. 23B–E; 255, fig. 24).

Steinera radiata ssp. aucklandica is characterised by: the saxicolous habit; paraphyses that are simple or bifurcating at the apices, the upper parts submoniliform; and ellipsoidal ascospores, 12–14 × 3–4.5 μm.