Pileus -18 mm, hemispherical becoming obtusely conical or broadly campanulate, margin not upturned, lobate-sulcate in mature specimens; brilliant orange (but any red colours absent) or orange-yellow; dry, hygrophanous, conspicuously striate in wet condition, smooth. - Lamellae 6-10 (1 -1) broadly adnate to subdecurrent with short tooth, rather distant pale orange-yellow turning pale orange in aged basidiomes, entire obtuse edges concolorous. - Stipe 15-30 x 1.5-2 mm, cylindrical, equal or gradually enlarged into pileus; orange yellow in upper portion, golden yellow below; dry,minutely fibrillose, fistulose-hollow, single or caespitose. - Context orange in pileus, yellow in stipe. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - negative. - Spore print white. Spores 5.5-7 x 4-4.5 (-5) um, elliptical to ovoid, hyaline, smooth, inamyloid. - Basidia 40-45 x 5um, 4-spored. - Cystidia absent. - Pileipellis a cutis of cylindrical, non-gelatinised hyphae (2-6um diam.), with pale yellow (KOH) plasmatic and encrusting pigment, oleiferous hyphae present; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 4, 7).

DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA-LBI).

ECOLOGY. Rare; on soil among moss and litter in mixed moss forest. June.

Pileus-18 mm.hemisphaericus vel obtuseconicus, aurantioluteus, perstriatus, siccus. Lamellae late adnatae vel sub decurrentes, pileo concolores. Stipes 15-30 x 1.5-2 um, cylindricus, pileo concolor, basim versus aureus. Odor saporque nulli. Sporae5.5 - 7 x 4.5 um, ellipticae, leves, inamyloideae. Fibulae praesentes. Ad terram intermuscos in silvis mixtis. Novazelandia. Holotypus PDD 27185.

TYPE: NZ: NA, Little Barrier Island, near summit of Mt Hauturu, 12 vi 1981, Horak, PDD 27185.