Holotype (PDD 27088); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/309): 'Westbay of Lake Rotoiti, Prov. Nelson, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 29.IV.1968'.

Pileus 10-20 mm diam., hemispherical or convex when young becoming expanded or even concave, deep orange to apricot yellow (like Mycena fibula [Fries]), darker at the centre, dry, glabrous, slightly striate at the margin. Lamellae broadly adnate to subdecurrent, light orange, frequently connected by anastomoses at the bottom, close, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 20-40 x 2-4 mm, fusoid or rarely cylindric, concolorous with pileus, dry, glabrous, fistulose, often curved. Context orange, not waxy. Taste and odor not distinctive. Chemical reactions on Pileus: KOH, HCl- negative. Spores 4.5-5.5 x 4-5 µm, subglobose to ovoid, smooth, inamyloid. Basidia 30-35 x 5-6 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia lacking. Gill trama interwoven. Cuticle a cutis of repent, irregularly interwoven, cylindric, not gelatinized hyphae (2-7 µm diam.). Clamp connections present.

Amongst mosses under Leptospermum scoparium (and Nothofagus cliffortioides). New Zealand.

Pileo 10-20 mm lato, e convexo plano vel concavo, aurantiaco, sicco, glabro. Lamellis late adnatis vel decurrentibus, pallide aurantiacis. Stipite 20-40 x 2-4 mm, fusoideo, pileo concolori, sicco. Sporis 4.5-5.5 x 4-5 µm, subglobosis. Epicute ex hyphis cylindraceis, haud gelatinosis cutem formantibus. Septis fibulatis. Ad terram in silvis Leptospermum. Novazelandia.

Holotypus (PDD 27088) ‘Lake Rotoiti, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 29.IV.1968'.

SPECIMEN: cf. Stevenson (1962: 1.c.).

Pileus -20 mm, hemispherical to convex becoming expanded with upturned margin; brilliant orange to apricot, red tints absent; dry, glabrous to minutely fibrillose, not hygrophanous, scarcely striate at margin. - Lamellae 8-10 (1 -1) broadly adnate-decurrent to arcuate, occasionally anastomosing,. pale orange, edges concolorous, entire. - Stipe 20-40 x 1.5-3 (-4) mm, cylindrical, equal to subfusoid;  concolorous with pileus or paler; dry, glabrous to innately fibrillose, solid becoming fistulose, single; or caespitose. - Context pale orange. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - negative. Spores 4.5-5.5 x 4-5um, globose to subglobose or obovoid. - Basidia 30-35 x 5-6um, 4-spored. - Cystidia absent. - Pileipellis a cutis of interwoven, cylindrical hyphae (2-7 um diam.), membrane subgelatinised, encrusted with pigment; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 5)