New Zealand. BAY OF PLENTY: vie. Rotorua, Mt. Ngongotaha, on fallen wood, Y. Doi, 5 May 1987, PDD 58419. WESTLAND: Franz Josef Glacier moraine, on fallen twigs, J. L. Austwick, 27 May 1970, PDD 31361; Franz Josef Glacier, Peter's Pool Track, on litter, G. M. Taylor, 17 May 1969, PDD 49788. DUNEDIN: vie. Dunedin City, Woodside Glen picnic ground, on rotting wood, G. M. Taylor, 29 Apr 1967, PDD 49787.

Pileus 15-55 mm diam., conical to campanulate, expanding to convex with prominent, often more or less pointed umbo; dry to slightly tacky; yellow-brown to orange-brown, often paler towards the finely striate margin; staining greenish-blue with damage; flesh white. Gills adnexed, pale greyish-brown; margin concolorous. Stipe 30-60 x 2-4 mm, cylindrical, silky, innately fibrillose, white, often brownish at base, staining greenish-blue with damage, with white rhizoids at base; veil cortinoid, its remnants often visible on stipe, but never forming annulate ring. Basidia 25-31 x 7-8.5 µm, sub-clavate, tapering slightly to base, 4- spored, clamped. Cheilocystidia 18-26 x 6-9 µm, ventricose-rostrate to mucronate, with simple neck 3-5 µm long, hyaline, thin-walled, clamped. Pleurocystidia similar in shape to cheilocystidia, but narrower, 4-8 µm wide, and neck usually shorter, 2.5-4 µm. Spores (6.5-)7.5 9.5(-10.0)x 5.5-6.5 x 4.5-5.5 µm, average 8.7 x 6.0 x 5.3 µm, in face view ovate to subrhomboid, in side view elliptical: Wall brown, smooth, about 0.8-1 µm thick, with apical pore. Pileipellis a cutis of long-celled, 2-3 µm diam., gelatinised hyphae. Hypodermium filamentous, of 4-6 µm diam. cells with pale brown walls. Clamps common. Subhymenium poorly developed, sub-cellular, of 2-4 µm diam. cells with very pale brown walls. Hymenophoral trama more or less regular, of short cylindric, 3-6 µm diam. cells with hyaline walls.

Known only from New Zealand: Bay of Plenty, Westland, Otago Lakes, Dunedin.

Fallen, rotting wood.

Pileus 15-55 mm latus, e conico ad campanulato expansus et convexus, umbone acuto; siccus ad leviter viscosus; flavobrunneus ad aurantiobrunneus, ad marginem subtiliter striatum versus saepe pallidiorem; foedatus viridi-caesius, came alba. Lamellae adnexae, dilutae cinerascentes brunneae. margine concolora. Stipes 30-60 x 2-4 mm, cylindricus, sericeus, fibrillosus, albus, saepe basi brunneolae, foedatae viridicaesius, basi rhizoideis albis; velo cortinoide. Basidia 25-31 x 7-8.5 µm. subclavata, tetraspora, fibulata. Cheilocystidia 18-26 x 6-9 µm, ventricoso-rostrata ad mucronata, hyalina, tenuiter tunicata, fibulata collo simplici, 3-5 µm longo. Pleurocystidia similibus cheilocystidiis sed angustiora, 4-8 µm lata, collo breviore, 2.5-4 µm longo. Sporae (6.5-)7.5-9.5(-10) x 5.5-6.5 x 4.5-5.5 µm, [mean] 8.7x6.0x5.3 µm, aspectu faciali ovato ad subrhombico, aspectu facie ellipsoido; pariete brunneo, laevi, ca. 0.8-1 µm lato, poro apicali. Hyphae cuticulae pilei filamentosae.

Named after the geographic locality of the type specimen. Margot & Watling (1981) examined FDD 49788, and considered that it was similar to P. caerulipes (Peck) Sacc. P. caerulipes, belonging in section Semilanceatae of Guzman (1983), is distinguished by its lack of pleurocystidia, different spore shape, and longer-necked cheilocystidia. Spore shape and the blueing reaction place P. makarorae in section Mexicanae of Guzman (1983). The size of the caps, the presence of pleurocystidia, and the short-necked cheilocystidia distinguish P. makarorae from the six species accepted in this section by Guzman.

New Zealand. OTAGO LAKES: Haast Pass, vie. Makarora, Blue Pools Track, on rotten Nothofagus wood, P. R. Johnston, B. P. Segedin & R. H. Petersen, 16 May 1990, PDD 57396.