[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Pileus 1-2-5 cm., diam., orange to luteous, darker at centre, often striate at edge, hemispherical, matt to subfibrillose; flesh orange to yellow, rather waxy. Gills sinuately adnexed to adnate, orange, paler at edges, deep, distant, rather thick. Stipe 5-7 cm. X 2-3 mm. yellow to orange, smooth, silky to waxy, hollow to somewhat stuffed, rather tough, flesh continuous with that of cap; centre of cap is a separate plug of tissue above hollow centre of stipe. Spores 10 x 14-17 µm., hyaline, thin-walled, print white. Basidia 80-85 X 9-12 µm., four-spored.

habitat: in soil under forest, Keith George Park, 15.6.1949; & 26-6. 1958; Levin, 22.6.1958; Silverstream, 19.7-1949;  all Stevenson.

Pileus 1-2-5 cm., diam., e luteo aurantiacus, ad discum obscurior, ad marginem saepe striatus, hemisphaericus, impolitus vel subfibrillosus; came ex aurantiaco lutea subceracea. Lamellae sinuato-adnexae vel adnatae, aurantiacae, ad aciem pallidiores, latae, distantes, subcrassae. Stipes 5-7 cm. x 2-3 mm., e luteo aurantiacus, laevis, sericeus vel ceraceus, e farcto cavus, modice lentus; came cum illa pilei continua. In medio pilei, supra stipitem fistulosum, adest texturae epistomium distinctum. Sporae 10 x 14-17 µm., hyalinae, tenuiter tunicatae, in cumulo albidae.

Typus: Stevenson 643.