Plants subglobose, to 2 cm. diameter, attached by a prominent basal strand, yellowish-brown to ferruginous, somewhat wrinkled when dry. Peridium 350-611 microns thick, readily separable in mature plants, of a single layer of compact pseudoparenchyma. Gleba ollivaceous, cells elongate, 2-6 mm. long, arranged radially, partially filled with spores; columella dendroid, arising from a sterile base; tramal plates 80-200 microns thick, composed of densely compacted gelatinized hyphae; basidia 6-spored. Spores fusiform, 11-14 x 5-6-5 microns, tinted yellow, apex acute, base pedicellate, covered with a conspicuous inflated exospore which is more prominent basally.

Distribution : Auckland, Te Aroha, C. H. C. ; Nelson, Fringe Hill, G. H. C., Type Collection.