Holotype (PDD 27040); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 69/134): 'Between Xmas Village and Mt. Anglem, Stewart Island, N.Z; leg. Horak, 14.III.1969'.

Pileus 12-20 mm diam., convex becoming campanulate with plane centre, margin not or slightly striate and incurved, beige or light brown, densely velvety, dry, not hygrophanous. Lamellae adnexed and shortly decurrent with a tooth or emarginate, at first whitish turning beige with pink tints, gill edge concolorous and not fimbriate, moderately crowded. Stipe 20-40 x 1.5-2.5 mm, cylindrical, coloured above like pileus, becoming increasingly orange or reddish below, covered by white fibrils next the base, dry, fistulose, solitary. Context beige in pileus, reddish-orange at the base of the stipe. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores 8.5-10 x 6.5-7.5 µm, 5-angled. Basidia 32-40 x 10 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent or suberect, cylindrical hyphae (8-16 µm diam.), membrane thin-walled, not gelatinized, with brown, plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections absent.

On soil in forests (under Leptospermum scoparium). New Zealand

Pileo 12-20 mm lato, ex convexo campanulato, centro applanato, marginem incurvo, brunneolo, minute velutino, sicco, vix striato. Lamellis emarginatis, ex albido brunneolo-roseis, acie integra instructis. Stipite 20-40 x 1.5-2.5 mm, cylindraceo, ad apicem pileo rubescens, sicco, fistuloso. Caro brunneola in pileo, aurantiaco vel rubro ad basim stipitis. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 8.5-10 x 6.5-7.5 µm, 5-angulatis. Basidiis 4-sporigeris. Cystidiis nullis. Epicute ex hyphis repentibus vel suberectis cutem formantibus, pigmento brunneo plasmatico instructis. Septis defibulatis. Ad terram in silvis. Nova-Zealandia.

This species is distinguished by its velvety, obtusely conical pileus and the reddening base of the stipe. It is as yet known only in pure stands of Leptospermum spp. (Myrtaceae)

Holotypus (PDD 27040): 'Mt. Anglem, Stewart Is., N.Z.; leg. Horak, 14.III.1969'.