Pileus -40 mm, hemispherical when young, soon becoming broadly campanulate finally convex to plane with distinct papilla; margin strongly inrolled in young specimens; white turning pale argillaceous or pale ochre in aged basidiomes; viscid to glutinous when moist, minutely fibrillose in dry condition, margin non-striate. -Lamellae 12-18 (1-3) arcuate to broadly adnate and decurrent with long tooth, crowded; whitish, occasionally with faint orange tint, edges concolorous, entire. - Stipe 25-90 x 26 mm, cylindrical or attenuated towards base, often robust in young specimens; concolorous with pileus, pale ochre-pink in lower portion, especially at base; dry, conspicuously fibrillose, solid becoming fistulose-hollow, single or caespitose. - Context pale whitish or ochre in pileus, pale brown to pink towards base of stipe, soft. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - pale yellow. - Spore print white. Spores 8-9 x 5-6 um, ovoid to elliptical, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid. - Basidia 45 60 x 6-7 um, 4 spored. -Cystidia absent. -Pileipellis an ixocutis of cylindrical, interwoven, gelatinised hyphae (2-6 um diam.), pigment not observed; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig., 7),

DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA).

ECOLOGY: Rare; saprobic on soil among litter under Leptospermum scoparium. June.

Pileus -4 0 mm, hemisphaericus dein campanulatus vel planopapillatus, albidus, viscidus Lamellae arcuatae, isabcllinae. Stipes 25-90 X 2-6 mm. cylindricus vel attenuatus, pileo concolor, pallide ochraceoroseus basim versus. siccus. Odor nullus. Sporae 8-9 X 5-6 um, ovoideae. Ad terram in silvis Leptospermi. Novazelandia Holotypus PDD 27226.