COLLECTION EXAMINED: Under N. solandri, Canterbury, Ashley Gorge, 25 Mar 1966, R.F.R. McN., (HOLOTYPE, PDD 25167).

PILEUS: plano-convex to applanate, 2.5-5.5 cm diam., dry, velutinate when young, becoming finely squamulose at maturity, cinnamon brown to chestnut brown; cuticle a trichodermium, composed of erect, branched, septate hyphae 10-18 µm. diam., with brownish contents, becoming disorganised and fragmentary with age; margin entire, often slightly extending beyond pores, sterile. HYMENOPHORE: tubes to 4mm long, slightly excavated around apex of stipe, adnate or subdecurrent, lemon yellow at first, becoming darker yellow at maturity; pores concolorous with tubes, large, angular, 1-1.5 mm diam., radially elongated near apex of stipe; staining greenish blue where damaged. STIPE: 2.5-5 cm long, more or less equal or tapering basally, 3-6-(9) mm diam., solid, fibrous, dry, finely granular to furfuraceous by aggregation of caulocystidia, pallid fawn to mid brown, often pallid yellow at extreme apex; flesh pallid yellow; annulus absent. SPORES: spore print not obtained; spores melleous, elliptic-subfusiform, 9.6-11.7-(13.4) X 3.9-5 µm, smooth. HYMENIUM: basidia hyaline, clavate, 28-35 X 9-10.5 µm, 4-spored; cystidia numerous, scattered, hyaline, thin-walled, cylindrical to narrowly ventricose-rostrate, 42-66 X 7-10 µm. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: bilateral, of the Phylloporus subtype; clamp connections absent. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: pallid yellow, slowly bluing on exposure to air.

HABITAT: Solitary, gregarious or occasionally caespitose under Nothofagus.

Pileus plano-convexus ad applanatum, 2.5-5.5 cm diam., siccus, velutinus ubi juvenilis, subtiliter squamulosus ubi maturus, cinnamomeus ad castaneum. Tubi subexcavati, adnati vel subdecurrentes, primo citrini, fusciores ubi maturi; pori concolores, grandes, angulares, 1-1.5 mm diam.; glaucescentes ubi laesi. Stipes 2.5-5 cm longus, plus minusve aequalis vel ad basim attenuatus, 3-6-(9) mm diam., subtiliter granulatus ad furfuraceum, subhinnulinus ad meso-brunneum. Sporae elliptico-subfusiformes, 9.6-11.7-(13,4) x 3.9-5 µm, leves. Typus Canterbury Province, Ashley Gorge, 25 Mar 1966, R.F.R. McN., PDD 25167.