COLLECTIONS EXAMINED: Under (1) L. ericoides, Auckland, Titirangi, Jan 1966, R.F.R. McN., 25065; (2) L. scoparium, Huia, Karamatura Track, Jan 1966, R.F.R. McN., 25066.

PILEUS: convex to plano-convex, 3.5-5.5 cm diam., dry, finely tomentose to velutinate, cocoa brown, chestnut brown, or cinnamon brown; cuticle composed of short-celled, filamentous hyphae 8-15 µm diam., usually with conspicuous clamp connections and brown contents, terminal cells resembling dermatocystidia, often projecting at right angles to surface; margin entire. HYMENOPHORE: tubes to 7 mm long, excavated around apex of stipe, white when young, pallid yellow at maturity; pores concolorous with tubes, subregular, 0.5-1 mm diam. STIPE: 4-5 cm long, tapering apically, occasionally subcylindrical, 1-2 cm diam., solid at first, becoming stuffed, finally hollow, dry, tomentose to velutinate, concolorous with pileus or paler apically; flesh white to sordid white; annulus absent. SPORES: spore print not obtained, reported to be between Amber Yellow and Citron Yellow; spores pallid stramineous, short-elliptical, often ovate and flattened on one side, 7.4-11.7-(13) X 5.2-6.5-(7.2) µm., smooth. HYMENIUM: basidia hyaline, clavate, 27-35 X 9-12 µm, 4-spored; cystidia sparse on tube walls, crowded at tube mouths, hyaline, thin-walled, subulate with rounded apices to ventricose-rostrate, 35-52 X 5.2-9.8 µm.. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: bilateral, of the Boletus subtype; clamp connections present. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: white to sordid white, unchanging on exposure to air. TASTE: mild. SMELL: not distinctive. CHEMICAL REACTIONS: KOH and NH4OH on pileus and context of pileus—no reaction.

HABITAT: Solitary, gregarious, or caespitose under Leptospermum.

ILLUSTRATIONS: Murrill, Mycologia 5: pi. 80, fig. 1. 1913; Coker and Beers, The Boletaceae of North Carolina: pi. 6, pi. 61, fig. 1. 1943.