Holotype (PDD 27030); Isotype (Herb. HK. Zl68/656): 'Kauaeranga Valley, Coromandel Peninsula, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 9.VII.1968'.

Pileus 5-10 mm diam., hemispherical at first becoming convex, umbo lacking, brown or fuliginous, densely covered especially near the centre by small scaly squamules, squamules appressed towards the striate margin, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 6-8, l -3) adnate or emarginate, beige-pink, with concolorous fimbriate gill edge. Stipe 15-25 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindrical, sometimes slightly attenuated upwards, brownish, pruinate at the apex, glabrous towards the base, dry, fistulose, fragile. Context brownish. Odor and taste slightly farinaceous.
Spores 12-15 x 8.5-10 µm, 6-sided. Basidia 36-42 x 15 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 50-80 x 10-18 µm, fusoid or ampulliform, ventricose with long tapering neck, membrane hyaline, thin-walled. Pleurocystidia none. Caulocystidia 45-65 x 6-11 µm, like cheilocystidia but often capitate. Cuticle a palisade consisting of erect, short cylindrical, not gelatinized hyphae (6-12µm diam.), with brown, plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections absent.

On soil h forests (under Pittosporum spp., Knightia exelsa, Cyathea spp.). New Zealand.

Pileo 5-10 mm lato, hemisphaerico vel convexo, ex obscure brunneo fuligineo, squamis concoloribus squarrosis vel adpressis obtecto, sicco, marginem versus striato. Lamellis adnato-emarginatis brunneo-roseis, acie concolori, haud fimbriata instructis. Stipite 15-25 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindraceo vel attenuato apicem versus, pileo concolori, glabro vel subpruinato, sicco, fistuloso. Odore saporeque vix farinaceo. Sporis 12-15 x 8.5-10 µm, 6-angulatis. Basidia 4-sporigera. Cheilocystidiis 50-80 x 10-18 µm, fusoideis vel lageniformibus, hyalinis. Pleurocystidiis nullis. Caulocystidiis 45-65 x 6-11 µm, fusoideo-capitatis hyalinisque. Epicute ex hyphis erectis cylindraceis palisadam formantibus, pigmento brunneo plasmaticoque instructis. Septis defibulatis Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia.

Holotypus (PDD 27030): Coromandel Peninsula, N.Z; leg. Horak, 9.VII.1968'.