Holotype (PDD 27090); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/613): 'Ngamoko Track, Urewera National Park, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 27.VI.1968'.

Pileus 5-20 mm diam., convex becoming plane or umbilicate, creamy or beige later turning light brownish with orange tinge, glutinous, translucidly striated at the membranaceous margin. Lamellae broadly adnate to decurrent, whitish, turning pallid orange, with hyaline, gelatinous thread at the gill edge. Stipe 15-40 x 2-3 mm, cylindric, whitish or pinkish, towards the base with ochraceous tints, glutinous throughout its entire length, solid, frequently in clusters. Context whitish. Taste and odor not distinctive. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - negative. Spores 6.5-7.5 x 3.5-4 µm, ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid. Basidia 34-36 x 6 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia consisting of branched hyphae (2-5 µm diam.) with strongly gelatinized membranes, forming the glutinous thread at the gill edge. Cuticle consisting of repent to suberect, gelatinized hyphae (1-5µm diam.), free ends irregularly branched or coralloid, forming an ixocutis. Clamp connections present.

In soil under Nothofagus (N. fusca, N. menziesii), Dacrydium cupressinum, Elaeocarpus, etc. New Zealand.

Taylor 1970 (back cover).

Pileo 5-20 mm lato e convexo depresso-umbilicato, isabellino vel argillaceo, glutinoso, striato. Lamellis adnato-decurrentibus, albidis, filo gelatinoso instructis. Stipite 15-40 x 2-3 mm cylindrico, glutinoso, albido, basin versus pallide ochraceo, saepe connato. Sporis 6.5-7.5 x 3.5-4 µm, ellipticis. Cheilocystidiis gelatinosis, hyalinis, ramificatis. Epicute ex hyphis gelatinosis (2-5 µm diam.) ixocutem formantibus, ad apicem corralioideis vel ramificatis, septis fibulatis. Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia.

This is a characteristic fungus from which a painting is found on the back cover of Taylor's book (1970; between H. viridis and H. conicus).

Holotypus (PDD 27090): 'Ngamoko Track, Urewera N.P., N.Z; leg. Horak, 27.VI.1968'.

SPECIMENS: NZ: NA, Omahuta, Kauri Reserve ZT 592. - G, Urewera N. P., Black Beech Track ZT 650.

Pileus -20 mm, convex becoming plane or umbilicate, depressed at centre in aged basidiomes; whitish to pale argillaceous later turning pale brown with orange-yellow tints; glutinous, translucently striate at membranaceous margin. - Lamellae 6-14 (1-3) broadly adnate to decurrent, arcuate; whitish turning pale orange, edges with hyaline, gelatinous thread, concolorous, - Stipe 15-40 x 2-3 mm, cylindrical, equal or swollen at base; whitish (to pinkish), with ochraceous tints towards base; glutinous, solid, frequently caespitose. - Context whitish, waxy. - Odour and taste not distinctive, occasionally unpleasant. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - negative.

Spores 6-7.5 x 3.4-4 um, ellipsoid.- Basidia 34-40 x 4 -6 um, 4-spored. - Cheilocystidia composed of erect, branched hyphae (2-5 um diam.) with strongly gelatinised membranes, forming the gelatinous thread at edges. -Pileipellis an ixocutis of repent to interwoven, cylindrical, gelatinised hyphae (1-5 um diam.), with rounded, occasionally irregularly branched or forked tips; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 6).

ECOLOGY: Scattered; saprobic on soil among litter or on very rotten wood in Nothofagus and broadleaved conifer forests, occasionally also on decayed trunks of tree fems. May-June.

DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA, G).

ICON.: Horak (1973: 184); Taylor(1970: back cover "Hygrophorus" sp.)

TYPE: NZ: G, Urewera N. P., Ngamoko Track, under Nothofagus fusca-N. menziesii and Dacrydium cupressinum, Elaeocarpus sp., 27 vi 1968, Horak, PDD 27090.