SPECIMENS: NZ: NA, Northcote, Kauri Glen Park, PDD 29377. - SA, Coromandel Peninsula, Kauaeranga Valley, ZT 68/645.

Pileus -25 mm, hemispherical to convex with broad umbo, campanulate becoming plane with distinct papilla; whitish, pale yellow or yellow, darker in centre, red or orange colours absent; viscid when moist becoming smooth in dry condition, membranaceous, striate towards margin. -Lamellae 8-14 (1-3) decurrent to arcuate, rather distant, up to 3 mm wide, occasionally forked near margin or with anastomoses; pale yellow to yellow, edges concolorous, entire. - Stipe 25-80 x 1.5-3 mm, cylindrical or gradually tapering towards base; upper half concolorous with pileus, turning apricot-orange-pink towards and at base; dry, smooth, basal tomentum white, occasionally substrigose, solid becoming fistulose with age, single. - Context yellow (in pileus and apex of stipe), pink-orange in base of stipe, brittle. - Odour and taste not distinctive. - Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH - negative. - Spore print white. Spores 6.5-8 x 3.5-4.5 um, elliptical to drop-shaped, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid. - Basidia 35-55 x 5-6 um, 4-spored. -Cystidia absent -Pileipellis an ixocutis of cylindrical hyphae (2-6 um diam.), pale brown (KOH) plasmatic and/or encrusting pigment; clamp connections present (Pl. 1, Fig. 7).

DISTRIBUTION: NZ (NA, SA).

ECOLOGY: Scattered; saprobic on soil among litter in broadleaved-conifer forests (Kunzea ericoides, Elaeocarpus, Podocarpus, Dacrydium, Agathis, Cyathea). June-July.

Pileus -25 mm, conicoumbonatus dein papillatoplanus, albidoflavus vel stramineus, viscidus. Lamellae arcuarodecurrentes, isabellinae vel pallide stramineae. Stipes 25-80 x 1.5-3 mm, cylindricus vel basim versus attenuatus, apicaliter pileo concolor, deorsum ochraceoroseus, siccus. Sporae 6.5-8 x 3.5 4.5 um, ellipticae vel subguttaeformes. Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia. Holotypus PDD 27225.

TYPE: NZ: NA, Waipoua, in broadleaved-conifer forest, 22 vi 1981, Horak, PDD 27225.