Under (1) Leptospermum scoparium, Auckland: Epsom, 22.vi.l967, S. Davison; 7.vii.l967, S. Davison, PDD25963; Waitakere Ranges, Cascade Kauri Park, 9.vii.l967, A. Y. and R. J. McN., PDD25952; Nelson: Karamea, Oparara, 30.xii.l967, ll.i.l968, 6.i.l969, R. F. R, McN. (2) Nothofagus fusca and N. menziesii. Nelson: Maruia, 25.iv.l969, R. F. R. McN. (3) N. menziesii, Nelson: Lake Daniels track, 6.V.1968, 26.iv.l969, 16.V.1969, R. F. R. McN.

PILEUS: 0.5-2 cm diam., convex when young, plano-convex, applanate or centrally depressed at maturity, hygrophanous, non-viscid, faintly or conspicuously pellucid-striate when wet, striae extending to half distance between margin and centre of pileus, glabrous when wet, finely furfuraceous when dry, pallid reddish brown, sometimes tinted yellowish brown, drying buff. Cuticle composed of unspecialised, repent, parallel or slightly interwoven, thin-walled, clamped hyphae 6-12 µm diam. LAMELLAE: adnexed to adnate, distant, intermixed, thick, to 4 mm deep, pallid flesh pink, often with pallid yellowish tints, glaucous. STIPE: 1-2.5 cm long, ± equal, 1.5-4 µm diam., dry, hollow, subglabrous to finely and sparingly longitudinally fibrillose, often finely furfuraceous, concolorous with pileus or slightly darker; flesh concolorous; basal mycelium white. SPORES: spore print white when fresh; spores globose to subglobose, apiculate, hyaline, inamyloid, moderately echinulate, 9.5-13.5 µm diam. including spines, spines 1.2-2 µm long. HYMENIUM: basidia subclavate to clavate, 35-55 X 7-11.5 µm, 4-spored, sterigmata to 8 µm long; paraphyses sparse, simple, cylindrical to subclavate, occasionally irregular, to 4 µm diam. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: regular, composed of tinted, parallel, long-celled hyphae; clamp connections present. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: thin, concolorous with pileus. 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 Leptospermum and Nothofagus.