Holotype (PDD 27083); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 68/262): 'Track to Elliott Range, Granville Forest, Totara Flat, Prov. Westcoast, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 4.IV.1968'.

Pileus 10-25 mm diam., hemispherical when young becoming convex then expanded, flat at the centre, golden yellow to lemon yellow, hygrophanous, estriate, dry, minutely squamulose to felty. Lamellae broadly adnate to decurrent with short tooth, coloured like pileus or deep yellow, without red or orange tinge, gill edge concolorous, even. Stipe 25-40 x 3-5 mm, cylindric, equal or slightly attenuated towards the base, concolorous with pileus, yellowish-grey near the base, dry, glabrous, waxy, hollow or stuffed. Context yellow, not blackening. Taste and odor not distinctive. Chemical reaction on pileus: KOH, NH3 and HCl - negative. Spores 8.5-10 x 6 µm (11-13 x 6.5-8 µm borne on 2-spored basidia), ovoid, smooth inamyloid. Basidia 65-80 x 8-10 µm, 4 and 2-spored. Cystidia absent. Cuticle trichodermium consisting of suberect, cylindric, not gelatinized hyphae (5-10 µm diam.), plasmatic pigment present. Clamp connections numerous.

In soil under Metrosideros umbellata, Weinmannia, Quintinia, etc. New Zealand.

Pileo 10-25 mm lato, ex hemisphaerico plano convexo, pulvinaceo, aureo vel limoneo, sicco velutino. Lamellis adnatis vel subdecurrentibus, pileo concoloribus. Stipite 25-40 x 3-5 mm, cylindrico vel basim versus attenuato, pileo concolori, sicco, glabro. Sporis 8.5-10 x 6 µm, ovatis. Cystidiis nullis. Epicute ex hyphis cylindraceis suberectis, haud gelatinosis trichodermium formantibus. Septis fibulatis. Ad terram in silvis. Novezelandia

Macroscopically this species is near H. ceracea (Fr.) but the spores of the N.Z. fungus are considerably larger and there is no gelatinous layer on the pileus and stipe.

Holotypus (PDD 27083): 'Granville Forest, Totara Flat, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 4.IV.1968'.

Pileus -25 mm, hemispherical becoming convex to expanded, flat or subdepressed at centre; golden yellow to lemon yellow; dry, minutely felty to subsquamulose, hygrophanous, margin non-striate. - Lamellae 10-14 (1 -3) broadly adnate to decurrent (with short tooth); concolorous with pileus, edges yellow, entire. –Stipe 25-40 x 3-5mm, cylindrical, equal or slightly attenuated towards base; concolorous with pileus, yellowish-grey near base; dry, glabrous, hollow to stuffed, single or caespitose. - Context yellow, not blackening, waxy. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH, HCl, NH₃ - negative. Spores 8-10 x 5.5-7 um (-13 x -8 um on 2-spored basidia), ovoid. – Basidia 65-80 x 8-10 um, 4-(and 2-) spored. - Cystidia absent. - Pileipellis a cutis or trichoderm of cylindrical appressed or suberect hyphae (5-10 um diam.), membrane not gelatinised, with plasmatic pigment; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 1).

DISTRIBUTION: NZ (WL).

ECOLOGY: Rare, saprobic on soil among litter in broadleaved forest (dominated by Metrosideros, Weinmannia, Quintinia). April.

ICON.: Horak (1973: 145).

TYPE: NZ: WL, Ngahere, Kopara, Mt Elliott, under Metrosideros umbellata, Weinmannia racemosa and Quintinia sp., 4 iv 1968, Horak, PDD 27083.