North Island: WR, Karamatura Stream, l.vii.81, coll. EH & P. Johnston, no.1030 (holotype, ZT), no. 43581 (isotypes, PDD, TENN).

Fruit bodies up to 35 x 3 mm, simple clubs, scattered to cespitose in small groups, narrowly fusiform. Club equal, dull violaceous ("livid brown") in youth and maturity, opaque, appearing waxy; flesh concolourous; apex rounded. Stipe equal to tapering slightly downward, concolourous with club or paler ("pale greyish vinaceous"), inserted nakedly. Taste and odour negligible.
Tramal hyphae of club 2-8 µm diam., uninflated, clampless, hyaline, thin- to slightly thick-walled (wall up to 0.2 µm thick), strictly parallel, adherent. Subhymenium extensive, pseudoparenchymatous; hymenium thickening, basidia 40-50 x 7-9 µm, broadly clavate, bifurcate or clamped, obscurely refringent, empty but persistent after spore discharge; sterigmata 4, curved-ascending.
Spores 6.5-8.3 x 4.7-5.4 µm (E= 1.29-1.67; E^m = 1.47; L^m = 7.27 µm), narrowly ovate to ellipsoid, hyaline, thin-walled; contents uniguttulate when mature; hilar appendix small, papillate.

Receptacula ad 35 x 3 mm, simplicia, gregaria vel caespitosa, pallide violacea. Hyphis efibulatis; basidiis fibulatis. Sporis ovatis vel ellipsoideis (E^m = 1.47; L^m = 7.3 µm),laevibus, ut in oratione infra.

Fruit body colours and stature are similar to those of Clavaria roseo-violacea, but basidiospores are different and basidia are shorter.