Holotype (K): 'Church Valley Road, Wakefield, N.Z.; leg. Read, 17.IV.1956'. - Herb. HK. ZT 69/243 (PDD 27036): 'Harry Creek, Te Anau Bush, Prov. Southland, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 8.IV.1969'.

Pileus 10-25(-40) mm diam., convex becoming campanulate or plane with depressed centre, membranous margin exceeding gills, fawn or brown, finely silky or radially fibrillose, dry, striate, hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 10-14, l 3), adnexed or emarginate, at first brown turning pink-brown, gill edge concolorous, sometimes scalloped. Stipe 20-45 x 1.5-3 mm, cylindrical, concolorous with pileus, white weft near the base, occasionally with strigose mycelium or rhizoids, fibrillose, dry, fistulose, brittle, often in clusters. Context brownish. Odor and taste strongly farinaceous or like cucumber.
Spores 7-9.5 x 5.5-7.5 µm, 5-angled. Basidia 35-40 x 10 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (4-12 µm diam.), membrane hyaline, thin-walled, not gelatinized, with brown, epimembranous pigment, lactifers present. Clamp connections none.

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

Stevenson 1962: 1.c.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] filed under Leptonia in K; other Stevenson collections at K, GS 1174, GS 1175