Holotype (PDD 27039); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 69/131): 'Xmas Village, Stewart Island, New Zealand; leg. Horak, 13.III.1969'.

Pileus 5-8 mm diam., conical or umbonate-plane, grey-beige, smooth, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 10-14, 13), adnexed or emarginate, exceeded by the margin of the pileus, whitish becoming pink, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 10-15 x 1 mm, cylindrical, coloured like pileus, white at the base, glabrous, fistulose, brittle. Taste and odor farinaceous.
Spores 6.5-7 x 5-5.5 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 25-30 x 8 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (3-10 µm diam.), the thin-walled, not gelatinized membrane encrusted by brown pigment. Clamp connections lacking.

On soil or rotten wood in forests (under Dacrydium cupressinum, Podocarpus s pp., Metrosideros spp.). New Zealand.

Differt a typo carpophoribus et sporis minoribus et lamellis adnexo-emarginatis.