Probably introduced and synonymous with one of the cortinate species of Tricholoma.

Pileus 6-8 cm diam., light testaceous, convex with strongly down-rolled margin, smooth to finely fibrillose; flesh thick, white. Gills sinuate, moderately crowded, cream, becoming creamy fawn. Stipe 4-5 x 1-2 cm, creamy above membranous ring, light testaceous below, velvety to finely fibrillose, solid, equal; flesh white, rather tough, continuous with that of cap. Spores 5-6 x 4-4.5 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 28); print white. Hymenophoral trama sub-regular, of hyphae up to 5 µm diam. Cuticle of loosely woven hyphae up to 10 µm. diam., with internal pigment. Smell earthy.

Under exotic needle-leaved trees, Day's Bay, 1.11.1949, Stevenson (type); Nelson, 4.4.1957 & 15.4.19571 both D. Read.

Pileus 6-8 cm diam., laete testaceus, convexus margine valde deflexo-revoluto, laevis usque tenuiter fibrillosus; came crassa alba. Lamellae sinuosae, modice confertae, cremeae deinde cremeo-fulvae. Stipes 4-5 x 1-2 cm, supra annulum membranaceum cremeus, inferne laete testaceus, velutinus usque tenuiter fibrillosus, solidus, aequalis; came alba subtenaci cum pileo continua. Sporae 5-6 x 4-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis subregularis, ex hyphis usque 5 µm diam. sistens. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis usque 10 µm diam pigmento interno praeditis sistens. Odor humosus.

Spores non-amyloid

Typus: Stevenson 768.