Type: Mycorrhizal Fungi; Description: Basidiomata subepigeous to epigeous, depressed globose, ochraceous to cinnamon brown, occasionally tinted purple, covered in deciduous cinnamon brown warts, up to 40 mm in diameter, with a short rooting base attached to the substratum by rhizomorphs; peridium composed of a single layer, fragile, ochraceous in section, dehiscing by a small, irregular pore. Gleba olivaceous at first, becoming cinnamon brown; tramal plates few, white, becoming grey. Basidiospores globose, 0-septate, 9–12 μm in diameter, densely and coarsely echinulate, pale smoky grey.

Distribution: Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Gisborne, Nelson.; 1st Record: Chu-Chou (1979).

Significance: Shown experimentally to be a mycorrhizal partner of Pinus radiata (Chu-Chou 1979). Isolated from Eucalyptus spp. and experimentally shown to be a mycorrhizal partner of E. saligna (Chu-Chou & Grace 1982).; Host(s): Eucalyptus delegatensis, E. fastigata, E. nitens, E. regnans, E. saligna, Leptospermum scoparium, Pinus radiata, Pseudotsuga menziesii.