Holotype (PDD 27025); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 69/129): 'X-mas Village, Stewart Island, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 13.III.1969'.

Pileus 5-10 mm diam., hemispherical becoming convex to plane, without umbo or central depression, whitish or light beige with faint yellow tinge, innately fibrillose, strongly striate, hygrophanous, dry. Lamellae (L 8-12, l -3) adnexed, whitish turning pink, with concolorous, even gill edge. Stipe 6-15 x 1 mm, cylindrical, central, coloured like pileus, densely covered by concolorous, silky fibrils, dry, solitary. Context beige. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores 8-10 x 6-7 µm, 5-6-sided. Basidia 35-40 x 10 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis consisting of repent, cylindrical hyphae (8-14 µm diam.) with brown, vacuolar or plasmatic pigment, membrane of hyphae thin-walled, not gelatinized. Clamp connections present.

On rotten wood of Dacrydium cupressinum. New Zealand.

Pileo 5-10 mm lato, convexo ex albido sordide isabellino, innato-fibrilloso, sicco. Lamellis adnexis, albis postea roseis, acie concolori instructis. Stipite 6-15 x 1 mm, cylindraceo, pileo concolori, fibrilloso, pleno. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 6-10 x 6-7 µm, 5-6-angulatis. Basidiis 4-sporigeris. Cystidiis nullis. Epicute ex hyphis cylindraceis cutem formantibus, pigmento brunneo plasmatico vel vacuolato instructis. Septis fibuligeris. Ad lignum putridissimum Dacrydium cupressini. Novazelandia.

This species is well characterized by the size and shape of the pileus and fruit-bodies and is thereby quite distinguished from the two other, above-mentioned wood-inhabiting species of Entoloma.

Holotypus (PDD 27025): 'Xmas Village, Stewart Island, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 13.III.1969'.