Old Government House, Auckland University Campus, legit J. Cole, 1 iv 1971, Segedin 760; on wood of Senecio, Old Government House, Auckland, iii 1972 Segedin 849; on ground, Cornwall Park, Auckland, legit C.M. Segedin, I xi 1976 Segedin 1334; Clive Road, Epsom, 3 xii 1980, Segedin 1723. Possibly also Segedin 690, Auckland Domain 1970?

Pileus 55-90 mm, convex then plano-convex, ochraceous yellow, paler at enrolled margin and sometimes ornamented with velar debris, cracking from edge to form areolae and show white flesh below, irregularly furrowed. Stipe 40-50 x 5-13 mm, cylindric, slightly clavate towards base, white at apex, annulate, tough, fibrillose-floccose and similarly coloured to pileus downwards, becoming cracked; ring thick, tough, floccose-flaky below, dark brown striate above from spores. Gills crowded, fairly thin, dirty brown grey, uneven with pale, wavy edge. Flesh white throughout almost continuous in pileus and stipe. Taste none; smell rather sweet sickly. Basidiospores tobacco brown in mass, (10.25-) 11-12.5 x 6-6.5 µm, elliptic in side and face views, slightly flattened in side view, relatively thick-walled, yellowish brown in water and alkali solution; germ-pore distinct, central. Basidia 4-spored, cylindric 27-35 x 6-9 µm. Cheilocystidia numerous forming a thick wide fringe, narrowly lageniform, 40-60 x 5-10 µm with flexuous neck 25-30 µm long and obtuse head, tapered or not and 4-6 µm broad, some almost cylindric, hyaline; pleurocystidia ventricose-mucronate or ampulliform 32-46 x 10-14 µm with mucro 1-2 µm broad, hyaline. Hymenophoral trama regular with some oleiferous-like, yellow hyphae. Pileipellis a mixture of pyriform, pedicellate swollen cells >25 µm broad intermixed with many filamentous-cylindric, hyaline hyphae and fewer, similar yellowish hyphae 4-6 µm broad. Stipitipellis above ring with lines of clusters of variable cells many similar to those on gill margin or flexuous, filamentous, some pyriform. Clamp-connections present.

On ground or on old wood in disturbed areas.