Holotype (K): 'Waikanae, N.Z.; Stevenson 791, 1.1.1951'.

‘Pileus 35 mm diam., plano-convex, purple-brown; covered with a close cottony weft. Gills adnexed, moderately distant. creamy becoming pink. Stipe 55 x 5 mm. tapering upwards. cottony-striate. purple above to white at bulbous base’ (Description according to Stevenson 1962: 1.c.).
Spore print dark pink. Spores 11- l 5 x  l 2-14 µm. quadrate, at times obscurely 5-sided. basidia 50-55 x 14 µm. 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 55-110 x 10-l5 µm. irregularly fusoid, several times constricted, thin-walled, in KOH with yellow-brownish, plasmatic pigment, conspicuously clustered at gill edge. Pleurocystidia absent. Cuticle a cutis consisting of cylindrical, repent hyphae (3-8 µm diam.), terminal cells suberect and apically rounded, in KOH with yellow-brown, plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections present.

 In litter under mixed forest. New Zealand.

Stevenson 1962: 1.c.

This interesting species is characterized by the cuboid spores, the conspicuous cheilocystidia and the deep purple-brown colour of pileus and stipe. The rather unusual colour for a species of Entoloma changes in KOH to yellow-brown and can be observed in the hyphae of the pileus and trama and in the cheilocystidia. The dimensions of the spores as described by Stevenson in the original diagnosis are by far too small and there is no doubt also about the presence of cheilocystidia.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Annotation from Baroni that the type is a mixed collection

Pileus 3.5 cm. diam., purple brown, plano-convex, covered with a close cottony weft. Gills adnexed, moderately distant, creamy becoming pink. Stipe 5.5 x 0.5 cm., tapering upwards, cottony-striate, purple above to white at bulbous base. Spores strongly angled 4-5 x 6-8um; print dark-pink; no cystidia.

in litter under mixed forest, Waikanae, 1.1.1951, Stevenson.

Pileus 3.5 cm. diam., brunneo-vinosus, plano-convexus, tela gossypina densa obtectus. Lamellae adnexae, subdistantes, e cremeo rubescentes. Stipes 5-5 x 0.5 cm., sursum attenuatus, gossypino-striatus, vinosus, basin bulbosam versus albidus. Sporae 4-5 x 6-8um, valde angulatae, in cumulo obscure roseae. Cystidia nulla.

Stevenson 791