SPECIMEN: NZ: WL, Poerua Lake, Camp Creek, ZT 2093.

Pileus -50 mm, broadly campanulate becoming expanded or concave with (and rarely without) obtuse umbo; grey, occasionally with pale lilac or brown tinge over disc, dry, minutely fibrillose, hygrophanous, margin striate. - Lamellae 10-15 (1 -3) arcuate to decurrent, sometimes with emarginate tooth, often anastomosing, pale grey, often with fuliginous or brown tinge, edges concolorous, entire, obtuse. - Stipe 20-60 x 2-5 mm, cylindrical, equal but often attenuated at base; whitish to silver grey when young, base changing to pink or orange-red in aged basidiomes; dry, glabrous or minutely fibrillose, hollow, brittle, single or caespitose. - Context grey in pileus and upper portion of stipe, pink to orange in base of stipe. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - negative. Spores 5.5-7 x 4.5-5.5 um, subglobose to broadly ovoid. –Basidia 30-50 x 6-7 um, 4-spored. - Cystidia absent. - Pileipellis a cutis of interwoven, Cylindrical hyphae (3-8 um diam.), membrane not gelatinised, minutely encrusted with pigment; clamp connections present (Pl. l, Fig.5).

DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA,WL).

ECOLOGY: Scattered; saprobic on soil among litter in broadleaved-conifer forests (Metrosideros, Weinmannia, Schefflera. Dacrydium, Podocarpus). March-June.

Pileus -50 mm. campanulatus dein depressus vel concavoumbonatus, griseus, siccus. Lamellae decurrentes, pileo concolores. Stipes 20-60 x 2-5 mm, cylindricus, argenteogriseus, rufescens ad basim. siccus. Sporae 5.57 x 4.5-5.5 um, subglobosae, leves, inamyloideae. Septa fibulata. Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia. Holotypus PDD 27230.

TYPE: NZ: NA, Little Barrier Island, Mt Hauturu, in mixed forest,12 vi 1981, Horak, PDD 27230.