Holotype (K): 'Muritae Park, N.Z.; leg. Taylor, 29.III.1958'. - Herb. HK. ZT 68/147 (PDD 2705S): 'S of Lake Hochstetter, Prov. Westcoast, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 12.III.1968'. - Herb. HK. ZT 68/551: 'Timaru Stream, Pouakai Range, Mt. Egmont N.P., N.Z; leg. Horak, 16.VI.1968'.

Pileus 10-30 mm diam., hemispherical at first, becoming convex and later
plane and subumbilicate, brown to beige, aged carpophores often fading, velvety or covered by small squamules, especially at the centre, with conspicuous darker striae, hygrophanous, dry. Lamellae (L 10-16, 1 3), broadly adnexed to subdecurrent, grey or beige brown turning pink, with white, fimbriate gill edge. Stipe 20-50 x 1-3(5) mm, cylindrical, sometimes swollen at the base, grey or light brown, conspicuously pruinose above, white at the base, occasionally with rhizoids, dry, fistulose. Context brownish. Taste and odor none or slightly farinaceous.
Spores 9-11 x 7-8.5 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 30-45 x 8-10 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 35-100 x 10-22 µm, ventricose with long, subcapitate neck, or lageniform, hyaline, membrane thin-walled. Caulocystidia like cheilocystidia. Pleurocystidia absent. Cuticle a cutis of repent or suberect, cylindrical hyphae (10-20 µm diam.), membrane not gelatinized, thin-walled, with brown, plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections absent.

On soil in forests (under Dacrydium cupressinum, Beilschmiedia tawa, Weinmannia racemosa, Quintinia spp., etc.). New Zealand.

Stevenson 1962: l.c.

Our two collections agree in general appearance and in the microscopical characters with the type material of E. mariae. This species is defined by the pruinose stipe, dull brown colours and the fusoid-subcapitate cheilocystidia.

Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] filed under Leptonia in K

Pileus 1.5-2.5 cm., chestnut-brown, hemispherical and strongly umbilicate, silky-striate largely covered with fine velvety scales. Gills adnexed, deep, moderately crowded, pink. Stipe 4-5 cm. x 2-5 mm., dull fawn, white at base, slender, silky, hollow. Spores angled, 10 x 6um.

rooting in soil under scrub. Muritai, 29.3.1958, Marie Taylor.

Pileus 1-5-2.5 cm. diam., castaneus, hemisphaericus et valde umbilicatus, sericeo-striatus, squamulis tenuibus velutinosis copiose obtectus. Lamellae adnexae, latae, subconfertae, roseae. Stipes 4-5 cm. x 2-5 mm., sordide hinnuleus, basi albidus, gracilis, sericeus, cavus. Sporae 10x 6um, angulatae, in cumulo sordide testaceae.

This is close to A. (Leptonia) gnophodes Berk. and Br., 'Fungi of Ceylon', 1871, but the type specimen, which has been examined at Kew, shows the stipe attenuated downwards, decurrent gills, and spores 10 x 8um, consistently broader than those of this species and rather more angular.

Stevenson 1276