COLLECTION EXAMINED: Under N. fusca. Nelson, Maruia, 23 Mar 1966, J. A. McRobb, (HOLOTYPE, PDD 25254).

PILEUS: plano-convex, 2.5 cm diam., dry, velutinate, cocoa brown to chocolate brown; cuticle a trichodermium, composed of erect, branched, septate hyphae 4.5-7 µm. diam., terminal cells typically with acuminate to mucronate apices and brownish contents; margin entire. HYMENOPHORE: tubes to 6 mm long, deeply excavated around apex of stipe, greenish yellow; pores dark red, small, angular, 0.25-0.5 mm diam. STIPE: 3 cm long, more or less equal, 8 mm diam., solid, fibrous, dry, finely granular to furfuraceous by aggregation of caulocystidia, red to dark red; annulus absent.  SPORES: spore print not obtained; spores pallid melleous, elliptic-subfusiform, 9.8-12.6-(13.6) X 3.5-4.9 µm, smooth. HYMENIUM: basidia hyaline, clavate, 28-39 x 7.5-11.5 µm, 4-spored; cystidia scattered, hyaline thin-walled, subcylindrical to narrowly ventricose-rostrate, occasionally 1-septate, 38-58 X 7-9 µm. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: bilateral, of the Phylloporus subtype; clamp connections absent. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: cream, unchanging on exposure to air. SMELL: not distinctive.

HABITAT: Solitary under Nothofagus.

Pileus plano-convexus, 2.5 cm diam., siccus, velutinus, fuscus. Tubi alte excavati, galbani; pori rubidi, parvi, 0.25-0.5 mm diam. Stipes 3 cm longus, plus minusve aequalis, 8 mm diam., subtiliter granulatus ad furfuraceum, rufus ad rubidum. Sporae elliptico-subfusiformes, 9.8-12.6-(13.6) X 3.5-4.9 µm, leves. Typus Nelson Province, Maruia, 23 Mar 1966, J. A. McRobb, PDD-25254.