corticolous on manuka (Leptospermum scoparium).
Growing in a residential lawn
Engine Bay Nursery orchard
Common on the lower trunk of hokotaka (Corokia macrocarpa) in dense tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) / mataira (Myrsine chathamica) forest.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange CH4469 & H. Tunaui-Chisholm, UNITEC 14235 (Duplicate: PDD)
Images sent to Dr Peter Johnston who commented "Surely a Xylariaceae – perhaps a Kretzschmaria with a weird growth from, or even a Hypoxylon that has had a hard life".
Abundant in degraded peat bog growing on the shaded sides of pedestals created by cattle pugging.