Under (1) Larix decidua, Canterbury: Hanmer State Forest, 12.V.1970, R. F. R. McN., R. F. R. and A. Y. McN.; Wellington: Tongariro National Park near Chateau, 2.V.1967, P. G. Sheridan, PDD 25770. (2) Finns radiata, Auckland: Mamaku, 6.iv.l965, P. Darling, PDD 24446; Orakeikorako, 10.iv.l965, R. F. R. McN., PDD 24467; Waiwera, 27.vi.l971, J. M. Dingley, PDD 29389; Canterbury: Waikuku Beach, 26.V.1968, R. F. R. and A. Y. McN.; Burnham, 5.v.1970. vi.l970, R. F. R. McN.; Eyrewell State Forest, 5.iv. 1970, R. J. Burr; Nelson: Harakeke, 7.V.1969, M. J. Noonan.

PILEUS: 2-5.5 cm diam., hemispherical when young, convex to plano-convex at maturity, hygrophanous, non-viscid, faintly pellucid-striate at margins when young and wet, not so at maturity and when dry, subglabrous to finely furfuraceous particularly near centre, brick red to reddish brown, drying pallid fawn to buff. Cuticle composed of unspecialised, repent, parallel or slightly interwoven, thin-walled, clamped hyphae 5.5-14 µm diam. LAMELLAE: adnexed to adnate, distant, thick, intermixed, to 1.5 cm deep, flesh pink, glaucous. STIPE: 3-9 cm long, ± equal or slightly tapering apically, 3-6 mm diam., dry, hollow, often contorted, coarsely longitudinally fibrillose giving stipe a silky sheen, reddish brown; flesh concolorous, basal mycelium white. SPORES: spore print white when fresh; spores broadly elliptical, rarely subglobose, often slightly depressed on one side, apiculate, hyaline, inamyloid, finely echinulate, 8-10.5-(12) X 7.5-9.5 µm including spines, spines to 0.7-(l) µm long. HYMENIUM: basidia subclavate to clavate, 32-5 X 8-11 µm, 4-spored, sterigmata to 8 µm long; paraphyses numerous, simple, cylindrical to subclavate or irregular, to 4.5 µm diam., often projecting to base of sterigmata. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: regular, composed of tinted, ± parallel, long-celled hyphae; clamp connections present. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: thin, reddish brown. 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 introduced conifers.

Boudier, Bull. Soc, bot. Fr. 28: pi. 2, fig. 2, 1881; Wakefield and Dennis, Common British Fungi pi. 20, fig. 2B. 1950.