HOLOTYPE: PDD 27003 (Isotype Herb. Hk. ZT 68/519: "On rotten wood in forest of Podocarpus, Dacrydium, Griselinia, Coprosma, Pittosporum etc.: Filter Station, Dunedin, New Zealand: leg. Horak and Baylis, 30. V. 1968".

Pileus 5-15 mm diam., hemispherical or conical when young, becoming pulvinate, margin strongly incurved and connected with stipe-columella; yellow brown with distinct reddish or orange tinge; smooth, slightly viscid, non striate; margin conspicuously covered with orange or reddish coloured veil remnants. Gleba cellular, cells about 1-2 mm diam., not distinctly radially arranged; brownish, without well differentiated tramal plates, not gelatinised. Stipe 6-20 x 3-4 mm, cylindrical or fusoid, attenuated towards the apex (columella), normally transcurrent and extending to the cortex of the cuticle but rarely terminating abruptly in the gleba; yellow, ornamented with distinct, adpressed, orange or reddish coloured zones forming one or more girdles of the veil; when wet slightly viscid, becoming dry with age. fistulose. Context whitish, under the cortex of the pileus yellow-brown, up to 2 mm diam. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH—brown. Smell and taste not distinctive.
Spores 13.5-16 x 8-10 µm, elliptical, sometimes even naviculate, smooth, brownish yellow, with distinct germ pore, membrane up to 1µm diam., axially symmetrical. Basidia 23-31 x 7-9 µm., 4-spored. Chrysocystidia 30-40 x 8-10 µm, fusoid, with short terminal projections, coloured by yellow plasmatic pigment, membrane hyaline and thin-walled. Cuticle a cutis consisting of cylindrical, repent hyphae (3-10 µm), membrane gelatinised, encrusted by yellowish pigment, clamp connections present.

On rotten wood. New Zealand.

Characteribus generis adsunt; pilco 5-15 mm lato, marginem versus inflexo et fragmentibus fibrillosis e velo instructo, luteobrunneo vel aurantiocastaneo. Gleba cavernis 1-2 mm latis consistente, cellulis ± radialiter disposita. Stipite 6-20 x 3-4 mm, cylindraceo vel subfusoideo, fistuloso, columella angustiori et apice cuticulam pilei attingente, luteo, viscido, velo aurantiorubro fibrillosoque ornato. Caro gelatinosa. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 13.5-16 x 8-10 µm. Basidiis 23-31 x 7-9 µm. Chrysocystidiis 30-40 x 8-10 µm, sparsis, tenuitunicatis, fusoideis, pigmento luteo instructis. Epicute ex hyphis cylindraceis pigmento incrustatis et membrana gelatinosa instructis, fibuligeris. Ad lignum putridissimum. Novazelandia.

Holotypus: PDD 27003: "Dunedin; leg. Horak, 3C.V.1968".