[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Other Stevenson collection in K, GS 1318, 1417, 1269

Pileus 2-4 cm. diam., convex becoming plane, fawn to dark-brown, very moist to almost glutinous, sometimes convoluted at the centre at first, drying fibrillose; flesh bluish. Gills free, thin, crowded, pale-fawn at first, becoming brick-coloured. Stipe 2-4 cm. x 2-4 mm., bulbous at base, silky striate, bluish-fawn, flesh bluish. Spores 6-7 x 8-10um, print brick-coloured. Pleurocystidia of metuloid type 20-25 x 50-70um; hyphal endings of pileus with brown pigment, some ornamented.

on fallen rotting wood, Eves Valley, Nelson, 1. 1 .5. 1 957, Stevenson; Taita, Wellington, 18.3.1958, Stevenson; Catchpole, Wellington, 3.5.1958, Stevenson; Wellington, 25.8.1958, Veronica Fell.

Pileus 2-4 cm. diam., e convexo planus, hinnuleus vel obscure umbrinus, ex humido fere glutinosus, interdum centro primo convolutus, sicco fibril- losus; car0 subcyanea. Latnellae liberae, tenues, confertae, primo pallide hinnuleae dein testaceae. Stipes 2-4 cm. x 2-4 mm., basi bulbosus, cyaneo- hinnuleus, carne cyanea. Sporae 6-7 x 8-10um, ovoideae, in cumulo testaceae. Pleurocystidia metuloidiformia 20-25 x 50-70um; hyphae terminales epicutis pilei intus umbrinae, interdum tuberculis ornatae

Stevenson 1224