NORTH AUCKLAND: Whangarei, near Tanihua Lodge, NZMS 260 Q07/ 12-89-, PDD 68574.

Pileus 45-65 mm diam., thick, fleshy, convex when young, finally broadly convex, often with central depression, dark red-purple (5R 4/4-3/2) scales on lilac surface, scales decreasing towards the margin, bruising dark red (5R 4/8); margin inrolled when young, finally inrolled to straight, uneven edge, with remnants of veil; lamellae insertion free, thin, crowded, pink (5R 4/4-6/4) when young, finally reddish brown 5R 3/2); edge concolorous, fertile; trama parallel to irregular. Stipe 35-45 x 12-18 mm, central, solid to fistulose, cylindrical, sometimes wider at the middle, narrowing towards the base, dark pinkish above annulus (5R 6/4-7/4), purplish below annulus (5R 5/4-6/4), surface sometimes streaked below annulus, bruising dark red-purple (5R 4/4-3/2). Annulus pendant, thin, purple-brown, ephemeral. Flesh white (N9.5), slowly becoming
reddish (5R 6/6-6/8) upon cutting or bruising; odour and taste pleasant. Schaffer's cross-reaction negative.
Basidia 4-spored, 15-35 x 8-10 µm, broadly clavate to clavate, with sterigmata 2-5 µm. Basidiospores dark brown in mass, size (7.7-)8.5(-9.3) x (4.9-)5.7(-6.4) µm, elongation (1.1-)1.3(-1.4) µm, ellipsoid to ovoid, pale brown to dark brown (2.5YR 4/4-5YR 4/4) in water, refractive centre (2 droplets), apiculus lateral, germ-pore not visible.

NEW ZEALAND Northland, Auckland (Taylor 1983).

In rings in lawn or pasture, reported amongst Paspalum grass.