[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Pileus 3 cm. diam., moist, waxy, dark-brown, with a few dark-brown warts, striate at margin, flesh pale-grey but dark-brown immediately under the cuticle. Gills white, free, moderately crowded, long and short intercalated, all with conspicuous blackish-brown margins; spore-print copious, white. Stipe x 0.7 cm., tapered upwards, covered with greyish-brown fibrillous striations on whitish ground; fibrils cracking into blackish-brown scales all free above and attached below, both above and below the blackish-brown ring; slightly hollow above, and quite hollow and chambered towards the base. Volva white with ochraceous tints, blackish-brown round margin which is adpressed to the base of the stipe. Spores non-amyloid, spherical 9-10 um diam. Sterile edge of gill with basidioles containing dark pigment. No cystidia seen on gills or stipe scales though the latter contained some thick- walled dark hyphae.

under Nothofagus in Wairarapa, 27.6.1949, A. Crawford.

Pileus 3 cm. diam., humidus, cereus, atrofuscus, verrucis paucis fuscis ornatus, ad marginem striatus; car0 pallide cinerea sed atrofusca subcuticula. Lamellae albae, liberae, mediocriter confertae, longae et breves inter-calatae, omnes marginibus fuscis. Depositum sporarum abundans, album. Stipes 5 x 0.7 cm., obclavatus, albidus, striis fibrillosis cinereo-fuscis tectus; fibrillae et super et sub annulo fusco in squamas atrofuscas supra liberas infra adjunctas findentes; stipes supra paullum cavus, basin versus omnino cavus et in loculos divisus. Volva alba ochraceotincta, circa marginem basi stipitis adpressum atrofusca. Sporae haud amyloideae, globosae, 8-10um diam.; margo sterilis lamellae e basidiolis pigmento subnigro praeditis constans; cystidia in lamellis vel in stipitis squamis non visa, tametsi hae hyphas nonullas fuscas muris densis continerent

Stevenson 682.