Holotype (PDD 27053); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/637): 'Kauaeranga Valley, Coromandel Peninsula, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 5.VIII.968'. - Herb. HK. ZT 69/104: 'Hari Hari, Prov. Westland, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 21.II.1969'.

Pileus 12-25 mm diam., convex to umbilicate, central depression distinct, beige or bluish-grey, densely covered with fuligineous or dark blue squamules, especially around the centre, margin strongly striate, hygrophanous, membranous. Lamellae (L 8-12, 1 3-4) emarginate, with red coloured, fimbriate gill edge. Stipe 20-35 x 1-2 mm, cylindrical, blue, with white weft at the base, smooth, fistulose. Odor and taste not distinctive.
Spores 10-12 x 7-8 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 24-30 x 9 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 40-95 x 5-14 µm, clavate, thin-walled membrane, with brown plasmatic pigment. Pleuro- and caulocystidia none. Cuticle a cutis or loose trichoderm of suberect, short, cylindrical hyphae (5-20 µm diam.), terminal cells subclavate, with brown, plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections absent.

On or among litter of tree-fern (Dicksonia spp., Cyathea spp.). New Zealand.

Pileo 12-25 mm lato, e convexo umbilicato, griseocoeruleo vel brunneolo squamulis nigris (coeruleis) obtecto, valde striato, sicco. Lamellis emarginatis, isabellinis dein roseis, acie fimbriata et rubrobrunnea instructis. Stipite 20-35 x 1-2 mm, cylindraceo, coeruleo, mycelio albo ad basim instructo, glabro, sicco, fistuloso. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 10-12 x 7-8 µm, 5-6 angulatis. Basidiis 4-sporigeris. Cheilocystidiis clavatis vel cylindraceo-articulatis (40-95 x 5-14 µm), pigmento brunneo plasmatico instructis. Epicute ex hyphis suberectis cutem formantibus, pigmento brunneo plasmatico impletis. Septis defibulatis. Ad detritum Dicksoniae vel Cyatheae. Novazelandia.

Holotypus (PDD 27053): 'Kauaeranga Valley, Coromandel Peninsula, N.Z.; leg. Horak.5.VII.1968'.