K(M) 122114, Stevenson 743. I can add nothing to the comprehensive notes and drawings of Desjardin

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

Known distribution: New Zealand.

Inserted on dead twigs of forest litter.

The holotype specimen consists of 6 intact basidiomes in fair condition. As dried: Pileus 4–8 mm diam., conical with a conical papilla surrounded by a zone of long tufted hairs, margin with shorter and smaller tufts, yellowish brown to orangish brown. Lamellae free, close with 1 series of lamellulae, narrow, cream-colored. Stipe 60–100 × 1 mm, pubescent, greyish brown; rhizomorphs absent.Basidiospores (7.7–) 8–9.6 × 4.2–5.5 μm [xm = 8.8 ± 0.5 × 4.7 ± 0.4 μm, Q = 1.7–2.2, Qm = 1.9 ± 0.1, n = 20 spores per 1 collection], ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, thin-walled. Basidia 2- and 4-sterigmate, clavate, clamped. Basidioles subfusoid. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia common, lamellar edge sterile; main body 11–20 × 4.5–8 μm, irregularly cylindrical to clavate with numerous apical appendages; apical appendages 1.5–6.5 (–10) × 1–3 μm, finger-like or irregular in outline, obtuse, sometimes forked, hyaline, inamyloid, thin-walled. Pileipellis of tangled to parallel and agglutinated, thick-walled hairs. Hairs up to 700 μm long × 2.5–4.5 (–5) μm diam., cylindrical, gradually narrowed to a subacute tip; walls smooth, 0.5–2 μm thick, hyaline to yellow, inamyloid to dextrinoid. Stipitipellis with hairs like the pileipellis.

This represents a good species of Crinipellis distinctive because of the conical-papillate, ochraceous pileus, long greyish brown stipe (up to 100 mm), setulose cheilocystidia, and the absence of rhizomorphs. It is allied with C. setipes (Peck) Singer from North America. Status: Crinipellis procera is known currently only from New Zealand.

Pileus 5-15 mm diam., ochraceous more or less covered with long-brown fibrils, plano-convex with a sharp central umbo in a very small umbilicus. Gills sinuately adnexed, then seceding, white, crowded. Stipe 6-9.5 cm x 1 mm, fawn immediately beneath gills, fuscous to dark fuscous below, velvety fibrillose, somewhat grooved and twisted, tough; flesh silky white. Spores 8 x 4-4.5 µm non-amyloid, thin-walled. Cheilocystidia 10 x 5 µm with branched tips (Fig. 2/30, p. 37). Cuticular fibrils of unbranched, thick-walled, amyloid to pseudo-amyloid hyphae, 5 µm. diam. with walls 1-2 µm thick, with occasional clamp connections.

Inserted in dead twigs of forest litter, Ohau River, Levin, 22.7.1949, Stevenson (type); & Keith George Park, 26.6.1958, Stevenson.

Pileus 5-15 mm diam., ochraceus, fibrillis longis brunneis plus minus obtectus, plano-convexus, umbone acuto centrali in umbilico minimo sito. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae, deinde secedentes, albae, confertae. Stipes 6-9.5 cm x 1 mm, sub ipsas lamellas hinnuleus, inferne fuscus usque atro-fuscus, velutino-fibrillosus, aliquot sulcatus et tortus, tenax; caro sericea, alba. Sporae 8 x 4-4.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Cheilocystidia 10 x 5 µm, apicibus ramosis. Fibrilla cuticularia ex hyphis eramosis 5 µm, diam. amyloideis usque pseudo-amyloideis sistens, parietibus 1-2 µm crassis, fibulis sparsis.

Typus: Stevenson 743.