Holotype (PDD 27022); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 69/202): 'Near Denton River, Te Anau Downs, Prov. Southland, N.Z.; leg. Horak, l.IV.1969'.

Pileus 10-16 mm diam., carpophores distinctly concave or subumbilicate even when young, dark brown or soot-brown, densely covered by concolorous or grey-brown velvety fibrils or small scales, neither striate nor hygrophanous, dry. Lamellae (L 6-10, 1 7) broadly adnate or subdecurrent, distant, dark grey-brown without any pink tinge, gill edge concolorous. Stipe 15-20 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindrical or attenuated towards the base, concolorous with pileus, with white hyphal weft at base, longitudinally fibrillose, dry, fistulose. Context brown. Taste and odour not distinctive. Chem. reactions: KOH and HCl on pileus -negative.
Spores 6.5-7.5 x 6-7 µm, subglobose, 5-7-sided. Basidia 30-35 x 7-9 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia none. Cuticle a cutis consisting of repent or suberect, fasciculate cylindrical hyphae (6-12 µm diam.), membrane thinwalled and not gelatinized, encrusted with brown pigment. Clamp connections present.

Among mosses on soil (margin of Nothofagus cliffortioides-forests). New Zealand.

Pileo 10-16 mm lato, concavo, subumbilicato, fuligineo, grosse fibrilloso vel radialiter squamuloso, sicco, haud striato. Lamellis adnatis vel subdecurrentibus, obscure brunneis, acie concolori instructis. Stipite 10-20 x 1-1.5 mm, cylindraceo, pileo concolori, fibrilloso, sicco, fistuloso. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 6.5-7.5 x 6-7 µm subglobosis, 5-6-angulatis. Basidiis 4-sporigeris. Cystidiis nullis. Epicute ex hyphis cylindraceis cutem formantibus, pigmento brunneo incrustatis. Septis fibuligeris. Ad terram inter muscos. Novazelandia.

In the field E. crinitum would hardly be recognized as an Entoloma but its microscopical characters clearly indicate that genus. The deep grey-brown colour of pileus and lamellae at first suggest rather a species of Rhodocybe Maire.

Holotypus (PDD 27022): 'Denton River, Te Anau Downs, N.Z.; leg. Horak, l.IV.1969'.