Holotype (PDD 27057); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/412): 'Kaihoka Reserve, Whanganui Inlet, Prov. Nelson, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 10.V.1968'. - Herb. HK ZT 69/332: 'Track to Mt. Luxmore, Lake Te Anau, Fjordland N.P., N.Z; leg. Horak, 9.IV.1969'.

Pileus 15-30 mm diam., convex at first becoming plano-convex and depressed or subumbilicate at the centre, dark beige to brown, velvety in the umbilicus, finely squamulose towards the striate margin, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae densely crowded, broadly adnate to subdecurrent, grey-brownish later becoming; pinkish, with white coloured, fimbriate gill edge. Stipe 35-60 x 2-4 mm, cylindrical. concolorous with pileus, white weft at the base, longitudinally fibrillose dry, fistulose. Context brownish. Odor and taste none.
Spores 8-10 x 6-8 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 30-35 x 10 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia absent. Cuticle a palisade of erect or suberect, cylindrical hyphae (8-12 µm diam.), terminal cells sometimes conically tapering, with brown plasmatic pigment.

On soil in forests (under Metrosideros umbellata, Nothofagus spp.). New Zealand.

Pileo 15-30 mm lato, ex convexo depresso-plano vel subumbilicato, brunneo, velutino, striato, hygrophano, sicco. Lamellis late adnatis aut subdecurrentibus, argillaceis deinde roseis acie alba fimbriataque instructis. Stipite 35-60 x 2-4 mm, cylindraceo, pileo concolori fibrilloso, sicco, fistuloso. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 8-10 x 6-8 µm, 5-6-angulatis. Basidiis 4-sporigeris. Cheilocystidiis 30-85 x 10-20 µm, clavatis, tenui-tunicatis, hyalinis. Epicute ex hyphis suberectis trichodermium formantibus, pigmento brunneo et plasmatico instructis. Septis fibulatis. Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia.

Like E. cavipes Hk. this species superficially resembles a species of the genus Tephrocybe Donk.

Holotypus (PDD 270s7) 'Kaihoka Reserve, Prov. Nelson, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 10.V.1968'.