Holotype (PDD 27024); Isotype (Herb. HK. ZT 67/215): 'Springs Junction, Lewis Pass, Prov. Nelson, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 5.XII.1967'.

Pileus 15-45 mm diam., papillate or convex with pronounced umbo, aged carpophores occasionally depressed at the centre, beige to dark brown, glabrous when young but becoming slightly wrinkled, strongly striate, hygrophanous, dry. Lamellae free, densely crowded (l 3-7), pink, gill edge concolorous and not fimbriate. Stipe 25-50 x 2 mm, cylindrical, often curved, central, light brownish and densely covered by white, silky fibrils, dry, fistulose, fragile, occasionally twisted. Context watery, brownish. Taste and odor farinaceous.
Spores 10-11 x 6.5-7.5 µm, 5-sided. Basidia 26-44 x 11-13 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia none. Cuticle a cutis or trichoderm of short, cylindrical hyphae (7-20 µm diam.), membrane thin-walled, not gelatinized, with plasmatic, brown pigment. Clamp connections absent.

On rotten wood of Nothofagus fusca. New Zealand.

Pileo 15-45 mm lato, conico vel papillato, ex argillaceo obscure brunneo, subrugoso, striato, hygrophano, sicco. Lamellis liberis, roseis, dense confertis, acie concolori instructis. Stipite 25-50 x 2 mm, cylindraceo, brunneolo, sericeo-fibrilloso, sicco, fistuloso, fragili Odore saporeque farinaceo. Sporis 10-11 x 6.5-7.5 µm, 5-angulatis. Basidiis 4-sporigeris. Cystidiis nullis. Epicute et hyphis cylindraceis cutem vel trichodermium formantibus, pigmento brunneo plasmaticoque instructis. Septis defibulatis. Ad lignum putridissimum Nothofagi fuscae. Novazelandia.

species was observed several times in the beech forests of New Zealand, on rotten wood of Nothofagus fusca only. See also under E. niveum Stev.

Holotypus (PDD 27024): 'Springs Junction, N.Z.; leg. Horak, 5.XII.1967'.

Material. - New Zealand: Nelson, Lewis Pass, Springs Junction, 5.XII.1967, leg. Horak (PDD 27024, holotype).

Habitat. - On rotten wood of Nothofagus fusca. - New Zealand.

Illustrations. - Horak (1973:33).

For full description see Horak (1973:33).