PILEUS: plano-convex to applanate, 3.5-6.5 cm diam., dry, tomentose to subvelutinate, greyish fawn to greyish with olivaceous tints; cuticle a trichodermium, composed of erect, branched, septate hyphae 5-10 µm. diam., terminal cells rounded or bluntly acuminate, often with brownish contents; margin entire. HYMENOPHORE: tubes to 4 mm long, adnate or slightly excavated around apex of stipe, deep golden yellow to orange yellow at maturity; pores concolorous with tubes or discoloured reddish brown in places, angular, 0.5-0.75 mm diam., occasionally radially elongated near apex of stipe. STIPE: 3-5 cm long, more or less equal, 0.8-1 cm diam., solid, fibrous, dry, subglabrous to finely granular or furfuraceous by aggregation of caulocystidia, occasionally finely and obscurely fibrillose. Sordid white to greyish white, often with brownish stains; flesh sordid white; annulus absent. SPORES: spore print olive brown (Isabella Color); spores pallid melleous, elliptic-subfusiform, 8.4-10.4-(11) x 3.9-4.5 µm., smooth. HYMENIUM: basidia hyaline, clavate, 25-33.5 X 7-9-8 µm, 4-spored; cystidia sparse, scattered, hyaline, thin-walled, ventricose-rostrate, 42-60 x 8-11.5 µm. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: bilateral, of the Phylloporus subtype; clamp connections absent. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: sordid white, unchanging on exposure to air. TASTE AND SMELL: not distinctive. CHEMICAL REACTIONS: KOH and NH4OH on pileus and context of pileus—no definite reaction.

Pileus plano-convexus ad applanatum, 3.5-6.5 cm diam., siccus, tomentosus ad subvelutinum, ravido-hinnulinus ad ravum olivaceo-tinctum. Tubi adnati vel subexcavati, valde aurei ad luteus; pori concolores vel decolorate rufo-brunnei, angulares, 0.5-0.75 mm diam. Stipes 3-5 cm longus, plus minusve aequalis, siccus, subglaber ad subtiliter granulatum vel furfuraceum, sordide albus ad ravido-album, Sporarum massa olivaceo-brunnea; sporae elliptico-subfusiformes, 8.4-10.4-(11) X 3.9-4.5 µm, leves. Typus Auckland Province, Henderson Valley, Sharp's Bush, 26 Jan 1966, R.F.R. McN., PDD 25165.