VICTORIA. Powelltown, junction of Leasmouth and Powelltown roads, hypogeal beside fallen eucalyptus trunk, 16 July 1974, G. Crichton & G. Beaton 65.

Gasterocarp 1-1.5 cm diam., irregularly subglobose, with basl attachment. Peridium persistent, pale brown, glabrous, finely wrinkled, on drying. Gleba dark umber brown (M.5.5Y/4.7/4.3), loculate, consisting of minute, full or partially filled, irregular chambers, 3-6 per µm, with slight radial arrangement. Tramal plates up to 200 µm thick, especially near the peridium, composed of a broad, gelatinous hymenophoral trama and moderately developed subhymenial layers; peridial context not gelatinized, hyaline, of thin-walled, inflated hyphae, 5-26 µm diam.; clamp-connexions present but inconspicuous. Columella small, dendroid, slender, gelatinous, at times scarcely present; sterile base small, discoid.
Spores symmetric, 11-15 x 6.5-7.5(12.5 ± 0.5 x 7 ± 0.5) µm (excl. orn.), Q = 1.78; ovoid to ellipsoid, not apically papillate, with a pale yellowish brown wall (-15 µm) bearing 8-11 longitudinal, subhyaline costae (-2 µm high), frequently anastomosing. Basidia 40-50 x 5-8.5 µm, cylindrico-clavate, bearing two, short, stout sterigmata. Hymenophoral trama subregular, hyaline, of subparallel, gelatinized hyphae, 2-10 µm wide, tightly interwoven. Peridiopellis a repent, agglutinated epicutis, 30-60 µm thick, of narrow, brown, thin-walled hyphae, 1.5-3.5 µm diam.