New Zealand. MID CANTERBURY: Mount Grey, Kowai Bush, on soil under Nothofagus solandri and N. fusca, E. Horak, 15 Sep 1967, FDD 27132 (Holotype).

Pileus 15-25 mm diam., hemispherical or convex, expanding to umbonate to more or less flattened; slightly tacky, glabrous; dark brown to fuscous, striate to edge, hygrophanous, drying to orange-brown. Gills broadly adnate, pale rust brown; edge concolorous. Stipe 30-40 x 2-3 mm, cylindrical, covered with whitish appressed fibrils, pale brown or concolorous with pileus. Veil cortinoid, remaining visible as fibrils on stipe in older fruit bodies, never forming an annulate ring. Basidia 21-30 x 6.5-8.5 µm, cylindrical, or sometimes slightly constricted near centre, 4-spored, clamped. Cheilocystidia 13-26 x 4.5-6 µm, more or less cylindrical, or with a poorly differentiated, broad, flexuous neck. Pleurocystidia absent. Spores (7.5-)9-10.5(-12.5) x 6-7 x 5-6 µm, average 9.5 x 6.3x5.8 µm, in face view subrhomboid, in side view elliptical; wall brown, smooth, <l µm thick, with apical pore.

Known only from type collection, New Zealand: Mid Canterbury

On soil and litter under Nothofagus

Macroscopic features of description based on Guzman & Horak (1978:51-53) and Guzman (1983: 294-295); microscopic features from examination of type specimen.