[GS] Pileus up to 5 x 4.5 cm., slate grey becoming tinged brown, orbicular becoming lobed, margin at first down-rolled becoming finally upturned, velvety, sessile; flesh firm, white. Gills decurrent to point of attachment, creamy white developing some ochre tints, rather thin, very crowded, dense metuloids appearing like fine white hairs. Spores 7-8 x 4um, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids up to 50 x 15um, pseudo-amyloid, very abundant, very thick-walled, pointed, with or without encrusting crystals (Fig. 1/5I, p. 10). Cuticle of loosely woven semi-gelatinized hyphae with conspicuous clamp connections, with a few irregularly thickened hyphal endings. HABITATo:n standing dead Podocarpus spicatus, Butterfly, 22.5.1949, Stevenson (type). [JC] Stevenson implied this is nearly the same as H. nothofaginea differeing in host. The dried material of this has a darker brown cap than H. nothofaginea and much more orange gills,. Some caps are smooth, others finely dark brown velvety, and some with a pale tomentum like H. nothofaginea and trstis. This is a substantial collection, and the individual fruitbodies are relatively large. No sign of basal rhizoids. Pileipellis tissue appears to be less gelatinised than either nothofaginea or tristis but is separable and has identical encrusted brown hyphae to nothofaginea, and a few thick walled dark brown pilocystidia (and a few hyaline). No pilo gloeosphex cystidia seen. The coarse and fine tomentum have the same micro structure. A number of the fruitbodies are infested with thick-walled minutely spiny spores of something else. Spoeres length=6.7–8.2µm (µ=7.2, σ=0.42), width=3.2–4.4µm (µ=3.7, σ=0.29), Q=1.7–2.2µm (µ=1.93, σ=0.15), n=20

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Pileus up to 5 x 4.5 cm, slate grey becoming tinged brown, orbicular becoming lobed, margin at first down-rolled becoming finally upturned, velvety, sessile; flesh firm, white. Gills decurrent to point of attachment, creamy white developing some ochre tints, rather thin, very crowded, dense metuloids appearing like fine white hairs. Spores 7-8 x 4 µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled. Metuloids up to 50 x 15 µm, pseudo-amyloid, very abundant, very thick-walled, pointed, with or without encrusting crystals (Fig. 51). Cuticle of loosely woven semi-gelatinized hyphae with conspicuous clamp connections, with a few irregularly thickened hyphal endings.

In standing dead Podocarpus spicatus. Butterfly, 22.5.1949, Stevenson (type).

Pileus usque 5 x 4.5 cm, cinereus deinde brunneo-tinctus, orbicularis deinde lobatus, margine primum deorsum involute tandem reflexo, velutinus, sessilis; caro firma, alba. Lamellae usque at originem adnectentem decurrentes, cremeo-albae, serius ochraceo-tinctae, tenuiusculae, confertissimae, metuloideis densis pilos albos tenues simulantibus. Sporae 7-8 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Metuloidea usque 50 x 15 µm, pseudo-amyloideae, copiosissima, parietibus crassissimis, acuta, crystallis plus minus incrustata. Cuticula ex hyphis laxe intertextis semi-gelatinatis, fibulis conspicuis, extremitatibus hyphalibus paucis irregulariter incrassatis.

Typus: Stevenson 551