Holotype (K): 'Queens Gardens, Nelson, N.Z; leg. Read, 30.V.1956'.

'Pileus 30-55 mm diam., hemispherical or broadly conical at first, then becoming plane, deep olivaceous, waxy, moist, drying subfibrillose. Gills adnate, moderately distant, long and short intercalated, creamy becoming pink. Stipe 50-70 x 7,.5-10 mm, creamy to light fawn, silky striate, hollow, rather brittle. Context thin, whitish to olive brown'.
Spores 7.5-11 x 7-8.5 µm, 5-6-sided. Basidia 30-40 x 12 µm 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis of repent, cylindrical hyphae (7-14 µm diam.), membrane hyaline, not gelatinized, with yellow (in KOH) plasmatic and epimembranous pigment, lactifers present. Clamp connections abundant.

On Soil. New Zealand.

Stevenson 1962: 1.c.

The above description of microscopic characters is based on a study of the type material. Further collections are required to settle the taxonomic position of this species which belongs probably to the introduced fungi.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Two other Stevenson collections at K, GS 660 and GS 1040.

Pileus 3-5 cm. diam., deep olivaceous, hemispherical or broadly conical at first, then becoming plane, waxy, moist, drying sub-fibrillose; flesh thin, whitish to olive-brown. Gills adnate, moderately distant, long and short intercalated, creamy becoming pink. Stipe 5-7 x 0.75-1 cm., creamy to light fawn, hollow, rather brittle, silky-striate. Spores angled, 8 x 10um; print dark-pink; no cystidia.

HABITAT: rooting in leaf-mould in groups under native and exotic trees, Levin, 18.6.1949, Stevenson; and Nelson, 18.4.1959 & 30.5. 1956, D. Read.

Pileus 3-5 cm. diam., atro-olivaceus, primo hemisphaericus vel late conicus, demum explanatus, ceraceus, humidus, exsiccando subfibrillosus; caro tenui, ex albida olivacea. Lamellae adnatae, subdistantes, aliae longae aliae breviores intercalatae, e cremeo roseolae. Stipes 5-7 x 0.75-1 cm., e cremeo dilute hinnuleus, sericeo-striatus, cavus, subfragilis. Sporae 8-10um, angulatae, in cumulo obscure roseae. Cystidia nulla.

Stevenson 1108