[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Other collections at K Stevenson GS 641

Pileus 3-15 mm diam., pale olive fawn to whitish with fawn tint, hemispheric to plano-convex, becoming indistinctly sulcate-striate at margin smooth to velvety; flesh thin, fawn. Gills strongly decurrent, white with minutely fringed margins, moderately distant, with long and short intercalated. Stipe 1-2 cm. x 1-3 mm, white to pale fawn, glutinous, hollow-fragile, with or without a few spreading hairs at swollen base. Spores 10-11 x 6-8 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudoamyloid. Cheilocystidia hair-like to ovate, 20-30 x 5-10 µm. Cuticle with scattered swollen dermatocystidia, 20-35 x l5-20 µm, with grey contents (Fig. 56).

On fallen wood, Karori, Wellington, 12.6.1949, Stevenson; Silverstream, 21.4.1958, Helen Druce, Kelburn, 20.5.1958, Veronica Fell in Stevenson (type); Keith George Park, 7.6.1958, Stevenson.

Pileus 3-15 mm diam., pallide olivaceo-hinnuleus usque albus hinnuleo-tinctus, hemisphaericus usque plano-convexus, deinde margine indistincte sulcato-striatus, laevis usque velutinus; caro tenuis, hinnulea. Lamellae valde decurrentes, albae, marginibus minute fimbriatis, modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 1-2 cm x 1-3 mm, albus usque pallide hinnuleus, glutinosus, cavus, fragilis, basi tumida nonnunquam pilis paucis patentibus instructa. Sporae 10-11 x 6-8 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia piliformia usque ovoidea, 20-30 x 5-10 µm. Cuticula dermatocystidiis tumidis sparsis 20-35 x 15-20 µm instructa, materie inclusa grisea.

Typus: V. Fell in Stevenson 1324