Holotype (K): 'Levin, N.Z.; leg. Stevenson 268 A, 15.V.1948'. - Herb. HK. ZT 69/170 (PDD 27028): 'Track to Mt. Luxmore, Lake Te Anau, Fjordland N.P., N.Z.; leg Horak, 26.III.1969'.

Pileus 10-20(-25 mm) diam., campanulate to umbonate-plane, margin exceeding lamellae and incurved, deep blue, velvety or fibrillose, dry, neither striate nor hygrophanous. Lamellae (L 12-16, 1 3) adnexed, emarginate or decurrent (especially in aged carpophores), pink, with concolorous gill edge. Stipe 20-80 x 2 mm, cylindrical, straight, deep blue, densely covered by darker pustulate squamules or fibrils, dry. Context blue (pileus, upper parts of stipe), whitish at the base of stipe. Odor and taste strongly farinaceous.
Spores 10-12 x 6-8 µm, 5-6-sided. Basidia 30-45 x 10-12 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a trichoderm of short cylindrical hyphae (10-20 µm diam.), terminal cells conically tapering, membrane thin-walled and not gelatinzed, with brown (in KOH) plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections present.

On soil among mosses in forests (under Nothofagus spp., Dacrydium cupressinum). New Zealand.

Stevenson 1962: 1.c.

The type collection of E. strictum is in very poor condition so that only the size and shape of the spores could be observed of it. The other observations used in the description were made on a fresh collection, which corresponded, in all essential characters with Stevenson's diagnosis

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