SPECIMENS EXAMINED: CANTERBURY: Christ-church, Mona Vale, NZMS 260 M35/78-42-, PDD 68572.

Pileus 60-120(-250) mm diam., thick, fleshy, convex when young, then convex-applanate, sometimes with a depressed centre, moderate brown (7.5YR 4/4) to dark brown (5YR 3/4-4/6) scales on paler (2.5YR 4/4) surface; margin thin, inrolled, uneven edge, with remnants of veil; lamellae insertion free, thin, crowded, white (N9.5) to pink (5R 8/4) when young, finally dark brown (5YR 3/ 2); edge pale, sterile; trama parallel to irregular. Stipe 50-80 x 20-50 mm, central, solid, cylindrical, swollen base, with mycelial cords (bruising yellow 2.5Y 9/8), above annulus white (N9.5) to moderate brown (7.5YR 4/4), surface fibrillose, with moderate brown (7.5YR 4/4) streaks below annulus, bruising moderate brown (7.5YR 4/4) to yellow (2.5Y 9/8). Annulus pendant, wide, white (N9.5) to moderate brown (7.5YR 4/4) above, moderate brown (7.5YR 4/4) to dark brown (5YR 4/6) below. Flesh white (N9.5), with pinkish (5YR 8/4) to yellow-brown (10YR 8/6) reaction upon cutting or bruising; odour and taste pleasant. Schaffer's cross-reaction negative.
Basidia 4-spored, 12-27 x 8-10 µm, broadly clavate, with sterigmata 2-4 µm. Cheilocystidia 12-27 x 7-10 µm, broadly clavate, hyaline to fawn. Basidiospores dark brown (5YR 3/2) in mass, size (7.3-)8.2(-9.1) x (5.2-)5.8(-6.4) µm, elongation (1.4-)1.6(-1.7) µm, strong brown (5YR 4/4) in water, apiculus lateral, germ-pore not visible.

NEW ZEALAND Canterbury.

Growing through fine bark mulch in cultivated garden area with mature exotic confier species.