Hygrophorus miniceps Stevenson (28 D) = Hygrocybe procera (Stevenson) Horak; for discussion see there.

SPECIMENS: NZ: NA, Waipoua, ZT 1120; same locality, ZT 1123. - same locality, (Yakas Track), ZT 1131. - G, Urewera N. P., Lake Waikareiti, ZT 822.

Pileus -25 mm, hemispherical to convex becoming obtusely campanulate, finally centre flat to subdepressed; pale yellow to orange, distinct reddish tints absent; dry, glabrous becoming minutely fibrillose to scurfy with age, hygrophanous, margin striate, -Lamellae 8-12 (1-3) rather distant, broadly adnate-decurrent to subemarginate, up to 7 mm wide; concolorous with pileus or paler, occasionally pale yellowish to pallid, edges entire, obtuse. - Stipe 35-80 x 2-4 mm, cylindrical, equal or subfusoid (with attenuated base); pale yellow-orange at apex, - orange towards base; dry, glabrous, hollow, occasionally strigose at base, single or caespitose. - Context pale orange in pileus, yellowish in stipe, waxy. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - negative. Spores (11-) 12-15 x 7-10 um, broadly ovoid. - Basidia 55-85 x 9-12 um, 4-spored. - Cystidia absent. - Pileipellis a cutis or trichoderm of cylindrical, suberect hyphae (8-14 um diam.), membrane not gelatinised, with yellow (KOH) encrusting and plasmatic pigment; clamp connections present  (Pl. 1, Fig. 1).

DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA, G, W).

ECOLOGY: Common; saprobic on soil among litter under Nothofagus (N. fusca, N. menziesii), Leptospermum (L. scoparium, with Sphagnum) and in broadleaved-conifer forest (Weinmannia,Agathis). May-June.

ICON.: Stevenson (1962: 380).

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Other Stevenson collections in K GS 170, 358, 1249. Is it possible that this specimen was not intended to be the type of this species? The type collection is fragmentary; the Stevenson specimen label records collecting locality as Butterfly, collecting date as 2 June 1958, but these collecting details are not cited in Stevenson (1963). Generally, Stevenson (1963) provides her collecting number only when citing the type, but gives full collecting details (excluding her collecting number) of the type collection plus other any other collections of the same species under Habitat. There are 5 collections of this species in K. Four correspond to the collections cited (although the Collingwood collection, GS 1249, has the collecting date 22.2.1948 in Stevenson (1963) and a specimen label date 22.2.1958) in Stevenson (1963). One of these, cited as "Keith George Park, Wellington, 15.6.1949", with a Stevenson collecting number 646, is in a different kind of packet to almost all other Stevenson collections, and on a seperate sheet in the folder, suggesting it might have been missed during the initial accessioning of the Stevenson collections. GS 1348 is cited as the type, but the collecting details of this collection "Butterfly, 2.6.1958" are not cited in Stevenson (1963).

Pileus 0.5-1 cm, diam., orange to scarlet, paler at edge, hemispherical, waxy to matt; flesh orange. Gills adnate, yellow, thick, distant. Stipe 3-5 cm. X 2-4 mm., orange to scarlet above, yellow towards base, waxy, smooth, solid or hollow, equal or thicker towards base. Spores 13-15 X 8 µm., ovoid, thin-walled, hyaline. Basidia 80 X 8-10 µm., four-spored.

habitat: in moss or litter under forest, Keith George Park, Wellington, 15-6-1949, Stevenson, Pinehaven, 21.6.19471 H. Druce, Levin, 18.7.1948, G. Parsons, Collingwood, 22.2.1948, E. Kidson.

Pileus 0.5-1 cm. diam., ex aurantiaco miniatus, margine pallidior, hemisphaericus, ceraceus dein impolitus; came aurantiaca. Lamellae adnatae, luteae, crassae, distantes. Stipes 3-5 cm. X 2-4 mm., sursum ex aurantiaco miniatus, deorsum flavidus, ceraceus, laevis, solidus vel cavus, aequalis vel basin versus incrassatus. Sporae 13-15 X 8 µm., ovoideae, tenuiter tunicatae, hyalinae.

Typus: Stevenson 1348.