VICTORIA. Melba Gully walking track, near Lavers Hill, hypogeal in wet eucalyptus forest, 24July 1982, K. & G. Beaton 49; Royston road near Rubicon, hypogeal under mixed scrub, 10 May 1983, K. & G. Beaton.

Gasterocarp 6-20 mm diam., irregularly globose to ovo-ellipsoid, with basal attachment. Peridium pale ochraceous to dull cream colour or greyish, smooth and glabrous. Gleba dark ferruginous brown, loculate, with small, irregular, empty chambers, 1-2 mm diam., without radial arrangement. Tramal plates thin, 40-160 µm thick, white, consisting of a narrow hymenophoral trama and well developed subhymenial layers; clamp-connexions present on all hyphae. Columella none; steriles base minute, whitish.
Spores 17-24 x 9-12 (19.5 ± 2 x 11 ± 1) µm (excl. orn.), Q = 1.77, limoniform with a protracted, obtusely rounded mucronate apex, golden brown, thick-walled, bearing a strongly reticulate exosporial ornamentation (-2 µm high), overlaid by a hyaline, disruptive myxosporium. Basidia 45-56 x 10.5 µm, cylindrico-subclavate, bearing two, straight sterigmata; also numerous short ellipsoid, immature basidia. Hymenophoral trama regular, narrow, with parallel, inflated, thin-walled hyphae, 2-25 µm wide, pseudoparenchymatous. Peridiopellis a thin epicutis, 15-30 µm thick, of agglutinated, thin-walled, hyaline hyphae, 2.5-6 µm diam.

A hypogeal species growing in small clusters, either solitary or rarely confluent. The large, reticulately ornamented spores, exceeding 20 µm in length, easily distinguish this species