K(M) 235279, Stevenson 881. The collection has been cooked on drying, like much of Stevenson's material. The spores have a retracted and dextrinoid endospore, fully consistent with my recognition of this taxon as Rhodocollybia purpurata.

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

Pileus 4-5 cm. diam., nearly plane, purple-brown overlain with pink- fawn cottony fibrils, flesh purple-brown under the surface, otherwise whitish. Gills free, moderately crowded, dull-pink. Stipe 4 cm. x 5-10 mm., swollen at base, silky-fibrillose, whitish, hollow. Spores 3.5 x 8um, print pink. No cystidia. Cells of epicutis 10-20 x 10-12um mostly with dark contents; fibrils of cap consisting of thick-walled hyphae, 5um diam., with walls 1um thick, all with clamp connections, mostly dark-brown in colour, many covered thickly with tubercles about 1um long.

in forest litter, Maungatua, 18.4.1953, Stevenson

Pileus 4-5 cm. diam., fere planus, purpureo-umbrinus, fibrillis gossypinis roseo-hinnuleis tectus; caro sub epicute purpurea umbrina, ceterum albida. Lamellae liberae, mediocriter confertae, obscure roseae. Stipes 4 cm. x 5-10 mm., basi inflatus, sericeo-fibrillosus albidus, cavus. Sporae 3.5 x 8um, in cumulo roseae. Cystidia nulla. Cellulae epicutis 10-20 x 10-12um, plerumque intus fuscidulae; hyphae fibrillarum pilei crasse tunicatae, 5p diam., tunicis 1um crassis, septato-nodosae, plerumque obscure umbrinae, et saepe tuberculis 1um longis dense tectae.

Stevenson 881