North Island: UNP, Black Beech Track, 23.v.81, coll. GS, no. 42374, with aquarelle (TENN).

Fruit bodies up to 8 cm high, up to 4 mm thick, simple, solitary to gregarious. Stipe up to 2.5 mm thick, equal, silky, clearly different in texture and width from club, with small pale grey subicular mat, neutral grey ("dark mouse grey") to bluish grey ("dark Quaker-drab"). Club terete, solid, neutral flat grey ("smoke grey", "light greyish olive", "mouse-grey"); club trama concolourous with stipe, stuffed. Taste and odour none.
Tramal hyphae without clamp connections, hyaline, thin-walled, parallel, tightly packed, of two width ranges: (i) up to 18.5 µm diam., of barrel-shaped cells, and (ii) 2.6-3.4 µm diam.; secondary septa absent. Subhymenium extensive, pseudoparenchymatous. Basidia 70-80 x 8-12 µm, clavate, with clamp connections; contents multiguttulate, the guttules refringent under phase contrast; clamp connection usually very long, loop-like, appearing as a bifurcation of the basidium base; sterigmata 4, divergent.
Spores 6.7-8.1 x 5.2-6.3 µm (E =1.19-1.50; E^m = 1.30; L^m = 7.51 µm), very broadly ellipsoid, flattened some what adaxially, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline under bright field; contents multiguttulate, the guttules refringent under phase contrast; hilar appendix papillate, up to I µm long.

On humus under tree ferns.

The New Zealand material conformed in every aspect with the Australian material described earlier.