Fruitbodies two. Pilei 2 - 3.5 x 0.3 - 0.5 cm, smooth, uninterrupted, light gold. Stipe 5 - 5.2 x 0.2 - 0.4 cm, equal to subobclavate, concolorous with pileus, smooth. Pileus cuticle an interwoven ixotrichodermium; terminal cells 2.5 - 6.5 µm diam. (d^m = 4 µm), hyaline in KOH, yellow in Melzer's. Tube trama, hyphae 2.5 - 8 µm diam. (d^m = 8 µm), boletoid, hyaline in KOH, yellow in Melzer's. Clamp connections absent. Basidia 30 - 43 x 10.5 - 13 µm (D^m = 32.5 x 11.5 µm), thin-walled, clavate, hyaline in KOH, yellow in Melzer's. Pleurocystidia absent; cheilocystidia 19.5 - 47 x 4 - 8 µm (D^m = 34 x 6.5 µm), thin-walled with a few becoming thick-walled, equal, hyaline in KOH, yellow in Melzer's, abundant (Fig. 7); caulocystidia 26 - 39 x 5 - 9 µm (D^m = 31 x 8 µm), thin-walled, equal to clavate, hyaline to pale yellow in KOH, yellow in Melzer's. Spores 14 - 19.5 x 4 - 5 µm (D^m = 17 x 5 µm; E = 2.8 - 5.0; E^m = 3.5), elliptical to subfusiform, inequilateral by a shallow suprahilar depression and adaxial swelling, pale yellow-cinnamon with green refractile inclusions in KOH, yellow-rust (pale dextrinoid) in Melzer's; surface smooth, walls continuous, surrounded by a hyaline membrane (Fig. 8); in deposit "Russet", light brown.

Type specimen (holotype):PDD -25184; on ground under Nothofagus menziesii; Otago District, Catlins, Puketiro Reserve; 29.iii.1966; coll and det. R.F.R. McNabb [!]