[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Pileus 8-13 cm diam., lemon yellow, sprinkled thickly at centre and more sparsely towards the margin with dark brown, tufted scales, dry, convex at first with strongly down-rolled margin, becoming almost plane with a waved edge; flesh firm, white. Gills sinuately decurrent, moderately crowded, creamy white becoming stained pinkish fawn. Stipe 10-15 x 1-1.5 cm, light brown above substantial floccose ring, shading to brown or olive green below, velutinate, sometimes with a few tufted scales, solid, tough, slightly bulbous at base. Spores 7-8 x 5-6.5 µm, non-amyloid, moderately thick-walled (Fig. 25); print white.

In dense groups round standing dead Nothofagus, Butterfly, Wellington, 22.5.1949. Stevenson (type); Nelson, 6.6.1955, E. Cannington; Eve's Valley, Nelson, 10.5.1957, Stevenson.

Pileus 8-13 cm diam., limoneo-luteus, medio dense, marginem versus sparsius squamis fusco-brunneis crinitis sparsus, siccus, primum convexus margine valde deflexo-revoluto, deinde fere planus margine undulato; carne firma alba. Lamellae sinuato-decurrentes, modice confertae, cremeo-albae deinde puniceo-fulvotinctae. Stipes 10-15 x 1-5 cm, supra annulum satis validum floccosum laete brunneus, inferne magis magisque brunneus vel olivaceus, velutinatus, interdum squamis paucis crinitis praeditus, solidus, tenax, basi leviter bulbosus. Sporae 7-8 x 5-6.5 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus modice crassis; in cumulo albae.