New Zealand: South Island, Nelson, N of Collingwood, Pakawau Creek, 7.V. 1968, leg. Horak (PDD 27144, holotype; ZT 68/384. isotype).

Pileus 8-15 mm diam., hemispherical or convex when young becoming plano-convex with sub-depressed centre, margin incurved; dark brown, paler towards the striate margin; smooth, shiny, not zonate, dry, veil remnants absent. Lamellae crowded (L 12- 16, -3), broadly adnate or subdecurrent with short teeth; argillaceous-grey with distinct pink tint, edge concolorous, even. Stipe 10-20 x up to 1.5 mm, cylindric, equal, central; concolorous with pileus, covered with pale argillaceous longitudinal fibrils, base with white felt-like mycelium; dry, solid, single in groups. Context brown. Odour and taste rancid to farinaceous. Spores 7.5-10.5 x 5-6 µm, ellipsoid, distinctly rugulose, hyaline, thin-walled. Basidia 25-30 x 7-9 µm, 4-spored. Pseudocystidia and oleiferous hyphae in subhymenium absent. Clamp connections absent.

On soil and on rotting plant debris in forests (under Nothofagus fusca (Hook. f.) Oerst, Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb, Dracophyllum spp.). New Zealand.

Pileo -15 mm. convexo dein subdepresso-plano, umbrino, glabro. Lamellis late adnatis vel subdecurrenttibus, cinnamomeis roseo tinctis. Stipite -20 x -1.5 mm, cylindrico, centrico, pileo concolori, fibrilloso. Odore rancido. Sporis 7.5-10.5 X 5-6 µm, ellipsoideis. rugulosis. Pseudocystidiis nullis. Ad terram vel lignum putridum. Novazelandia.

Typus PDD 27144.