Under (1) Quercus robur, Auckland: Cambridge, 20.ix.l969, P. K. C. Austwick and E. P. White. (2) native shrubs, Auckland: Ngaruawahia, 27.iii.l971, E. P. White.

PILEUS: 0,3-1.5 cm diam., convex when young, plano-convex, applanate, or occasionally centrally depressed at maturity, often variously deformed, hygrophanous, non-viscid, pellucid-striate at margins under wet conditions, glabrous, often faintly pruinose when dry, pinkish brown to reddish brown, drying pallid buff. Cuticle composed of unspecialised, repent, parallel or slightly interwoven, thin-walled, clamped hyphae 6-11 µm diam. LAMELLAE: adnexed, adnate, or subdecurrent, distant, intermixed, thick, to 3 mm deep, pink, glaucous. STIPE: 0.6-1.8 cm long, ± equal, 1-2 mm diam., dry, hollow, finely longitudinally fibrillose, concolorous with pileus; flesh concolorous with exterior; basal mycelium white. SPORES: spore print white when fresh; spores globose to subglobose, apiculate, hyaline, inamyloid, coarsely echinulate, 16-21 µm diam. including spines, spines 2-3-(3.5) µm long, to 2.5 µm diam. basally. HYMENIUM: basidia hyaline, stout, broadly cylindrical to clavate, 40-53 X 11-13 µm, 2-spored, sterigmata to 12 µm long; paraphyses absent. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: regular, composed of tinted, ± parallel, long-celled hyphae; clamp connections present. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: thin, concolorous with exterior. SMELL AND TASTE: not distinctive. CHEMICAL CHARACTERS : FeSO4 on pileus and context—rapidly dark grey; KOH and NH4OH on pileus and context—n.r.

Gregarious to caespitose under native and introduced trees and shrubs.

Orton, Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 43: 419, fig. 310. 1960 (as L. tortilis).