[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew have other Stevenson collections, GS 891, GS 853, GS 1114

Pileus 1-3.5 cm. diam., ochraceous yellow, darker at centre, intensely velvety, plano-convex with down-rolled margin; flesh yellow. Gills adnate, creamy-white, thin, crowded. Stipe 3-7 x 0.2-0.4 cm., ochraceous yellow, paler and silky striate above, more or less clothed with cottony fibrils below, occasionally peronate, hollow, tough. Spores 5 x 3 µm, amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama and hyphae of tissues non-amyloid. Basidia with amyloid granulation. Cuticle of globe cells, 15-20 µm diam., with ochraceous yellow pigment, some becoming amyloid, covered by abundant hair-like chains fragmenting into cylindric cells, 3-4 µm broad and 4-8 µm long, some becoming amyloid, containing ochraceous yellow pigment (Fig. 34). Strong unpleasant smell.

On fallen wood or rooting' in litter in Nothofagus forest, Keith George Park, 15.6.1949 (Type); & 25-5-1952; Lowry Bay, 6.7.1949, Fringed Hill, Nelson, 3.6.1956; all Stevenson.

Pileus 1-3.5 cm diam., ochraceo-luteus (medio intensius), eximie velutinus, plano-convexus margine deorsum revoluto; caro lutea. Lamellae adnatae; cremeo-albae, tenues, confertae. Stipes 3-7 x 0.2-0.4 cm, ochraceo-luteus, superne pallidior sericeo-striatus, inferne fibrillis gossypinis plus minus obtectus, nonnunquam peronatus, cavus, tenax. Sporae 3.5 x 3 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Trama hymenophoralis et hyphae texturae; pilei haud amyloidea. Basidia amyloideo-granulata. Cuticula e cellulis globiformibus 15-20 µm diam., cum pigmento ochraceo-luteo, nonnullis amyloideis et praeterea e catenis copiosis capilliformibus in cellulas cylindricas fragmentatis 3-4 µm latas 4-8 µm longas nonnulis amyloideas pigmentum ochraceo- luteum in sese tenentes sistens. Odor fortis, ingratus.

Although the peronate collections appeared different from the smooth-stemmed ones macroscopically, some were intermediate in this respect; all agreed in microscopic characters and thus are treated as one species.

Typus: Stevenson 653.