Found by fishermen off Chalky Inlet who sent photos through.
Main one on the island.
Growing under rawirinui (Kunzea robusta). On clay banks. Uncommon.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange 13478, PDD
isolated from necrotic patches on living leaves old man's beard. A pink slimy yeast. When put in the fridge for a week the growing edge became green filamentous and with hyphopodia-like cells. Sequence says this former variety of A. pullulans, originally isolated from subglacial ice in norwegian sea-water and also found in house-dust in the USA. New to NZ