Pileus -30 mm, ovoid to subglobose when young, inrolled to incurved margin enclosing stipe near base, becoming pulvinate in aged specimens, never expanded or up-rolled margin; ochre-brown to orange-brown; dry, smooth to minutely velutinous, margin not striate, not hygrophanous, veil remnants absent. Lamellae adnexed to adnate, crowded, up to 4 mm wide, straight and not anastomosing ; pale pink-brown or pale red-brown, edge concolorous, fimbriate. Stipe -15X-4 mm, cylindric, rather short and stout, central; concolorous with pileus; dry, minutely velutinous all over, becoming fistulose, single in groups. Context pale orange, whitish towards the centre of pileus and stipe. Odour and taste unpleasant, like rotten fish, rancid. Chemical reactions on pileus : KOH- negative. Spore print not observed. Spores 7.5-10 X 4.5-5 µm, ovoid to ellipsoid, pale brown, smooth, inamyloid; membrane composed of 4 distinct layers (pl. 1, fig. 1, 2, 3) viz. rather thick endosporium followed by the strongly developed sclerosporium with apparent leptotunica, covered here and there by remnants of a loose perisporium (EM data kindly submitted by A. CAPELLANO, Lyon). Basidia 28-35x6-8 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo-, pleuro- and caulocystidia 40-90 X 15-30 µm, broadly fusoid with acute apex (awl-shaped), membrane thin-walled, pale yellow plasmatic pigment present. Cuticle a cutis of cylindric to oval cells (5-20 µm diam.), with numerous dermato-cystidia morphologically similar to cheilocystidia, grey-yellow (KOH) pigment dissolved in cell-sap. Clamp connections present.

Habitat. - On soil in forests (dominated by Podocarpus dacrydioides, P. ferrugineus, P. spicatus, Fuchsia excorticata, Melycitus ramiflorus). - New Zealand.

Pileus -30 mm, hemisphaericus vel ovoideus, marginem versus forte inflexus, ochraceobrunneus vel aurantiobrunneus, glabrus. Lamellae adnexae, rectae, carneobrunneae. Stipes -15 X-4 mm, cylindricus, conspicue brevis, pileo concolor, velutinus. Odor saporque pisciodori. Sporae 7.5-10 X 4.5-5 µm, ovoideae, dilute brunneae, leves, inamyloideae. Cystidia numerosissima, acutofusoidea. Ad terram in silvis. Novazelandia. Typus PDD 27160.

Material. - NEW ZEALAND: South Island, Canterbury, Banks Peninsula, Kaituna Valley, 24. IV. 1968, leg. HORAK (PDD 27160, holotype; ZT 68/294, isotype).

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