New Zealand: "North Island, Urewera National Park, Tawa Track; 24.V1.1968, leg. Horak (PDD, 27129: holotype; ZT, 68/584: isotype)". "Canterbury, Mt Grey, Kowai Bush; 15.1X. 1967, leg. Horak (ZT, 67/105)." "Fjordland, between lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri; 6.1V. 1969, leg. Horak (ZT, 69/229)."

Pileus -35 mm diam., convex becoming umbonate-convex to campanulate; light brown, hazel-brown, or yellow-brown, at first densely covered with sulphur-yellow fibrils from the veil, washed off in aged carpophores; fibrillose, towards the estriate margin rimose, disc often becoming squamulose, dry. Lamellae adnate to adnexed, crowded (L 20-26, 1 -5), ventricose; grey-beige to brown, white fimbriate edges. Stipe 20-60 x -5(8) mm, cylindrical, attenuated towards the apex, base bulbous or clavate, rarely submarginate; beige soon turning pink or reddish brown, base densely covered with yellow fibrils or a membranous persistent volva (68/333, 68/622); pruinate all over, cortina absent, dry, solid, single in groups. Context brownish in pileus, reddish brownish in stipe, white to yellowish in base of stipe. Odour not distinctive.
Spores 6.5-8.5 x 4.5-5.5 µm, amygdaliform, smooth, brown. Basidia 18-25 X 6-8 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia 35-70 X 12-25 µm, fusoid, metuloid (-3 µm diam.), encrusted, hyaline. Caulo-cystidia similar but larger. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical hyphae (4-10 µm diam.), encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Clamp connections present.

On soil, among Sphagnum, or on rotten wood in Nothofagus forests (N. fusca, N. cliffortioides). New Zealand.

Pileo -35 mm lato, e convexo umbonato vel campanulato, avellaneo vel aureo-brunneo, fibrillis luteis primo obtecto, e fibrilloso squamoso. Lamellis ex argillaceo brunneis, adnatis. Stipite -60 x -8 mm, cylindraceo, bulboso-clavato, bulbo volva fibrillosa vel membranacea lutea ornato, rubro-brunneo, pruinoso. Odore nullo. Sporis 6.5-8.5 x 4.5-5.5 µm, amygdaliformibus, levibus. Cystidiis fusoideis, incrustatis, metuloideis. Habitatio ad terram, inter Sphagnos vel ad lignum putridum in silvis nothofagineis. Nova Zeiandia. Typus (PDD, 27129).