Pileus - 90 mm, hemispheric when young becoming convex finally umbonate-expanded; dull yellow-brown or red-brown, darker in centre, paler towards, slightly striate margin; glutinous, radially wrinkled in dry condition, remnants of universal veil inconspicuous. Lamellae adnexed to emarginate, crowded; orange-brown turning rust-brown, edge white, serrate. Stipe -80 x -16 mm, cylindric, equal; whitish turning pale brown; fibrillose at apex; annulus striate, membranous, persistent; with concolorous to reddish brown fibrils and recurved scales towards base; dry, solid, single, in groups. Context white. Odour and taste not distinctive. Chemical reactions: not known. Spore print rust-brown. Spores 11-15 x 7-8 µm, amygdaliform, mucro distinct, covered with rather coarse warts, brown. Basidia 35-45 x 8-10 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 30-70 x 12-22 µm, clavate to vesiculose, membrane thin-walled, often encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Cuticle a cutis of cylindric, gelatinised hyphae (2-5 µm diam.), cells of subcutis cylindric, encrusted with yellow-brown (KOH) pigment. Clamp connections numerous.

o n soil among litter under Nothofagus menziesii (Hook.f.) Oerst. and N. solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst. var. cliffortioides (Hook.f.) Poole, New Zealand.

Pileus -90 mm, hemisphaericus, convexus dein subumbonatus, umbrinus vel castaneus, viscidus, venosus. Lamellae aurantioferrugineae. Stipes -80 x 16 mm, cylindricus, flavobrunneus, annulo striato membranaceo et squamis recurvatis basim versus instructus. Sporae 11-15 x 7-8 µm, amygdaliformes, grosse verrucosae. Ad terram in silvis nothofagineis. Novazelandia.

Typus Herb. Taylor, 240.