Holotype (K): 'Ettrick, N.Z.; leg. Stevenson-Cone 894, 16.V.1963'. Herb. HK. ZT 67/170 (PDD 27032): 'Lake Rotoiti, Prov. Nelson, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 24.X.1967'.

Pileus 10-25 mm diam., hemispherical to convex, without umbo, brown fading to fawn aged carpophores slightly blackening, radially fibrillose, or silky squamulose near the centre, substriate towards the margin, dry, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 12-20, 1 -3), adnexed to subfree, whitish or fawn becoming pink, with concolorous, even gill edge. Stipe 20-50(-90) x 2-5 mm, cylindrical, frequ. attenuated upwards, concolorous with pileus, whitish at the base, silky-fibrillose, dry, hollow, brittle, twisted. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores 10-12 x 6.5-9.5 µm, 5-sided. Basidia 40-64 x 10-12 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (5-12 µm  diam.), with brown plasmatic pigment, membrane thin-walled, not gelatinized. Clamp connections absent

On soil in forests (under Pinus spp., Nothofagus spp., Leptospermum spp.). New Zealand.

Stevenson 1962: 1.c.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Filed in K as Nolanea