Holotype of Hygrocybe insipida (Lange ex Lundell): 'W of Slavsta. Upland, Upsala. Sweden; leg. H. Belin, 25.X.1953' Fungi Exsic. Succ. 2331. - Holotype of Hygrophorus julietae Stev. (K): 'Wellington Botanic Garden. nov.Z.; leg. Juliet Cone in Stevenson (697), l.VII.1949'.

‘Pileus 5-11 mm diam., orange, hemispherical to plano-convex, matt to velvety-fibrillose; flesh luteous. Gills decurrent, creamy yellow to creamy white, moderately distant with venose folds between, occasionally forked. Stipe 10-15 x 1-2 mm, luteous, sometimes orange above, sometimes with white fibrils at the foot, equal or slightly attenuated below, solid'. Spores 6-8 x 3-3.5 µm, ellipsoid, conspicuously constricted, smooth, inamyloid. Basidia 30-35 x 5 µm, 4-spored. Cystidia absent. Cuticle consisting of repent, slightly gelatinised hyphae (2-10 µm diam.) forming a cutis. Clamp connections present.

In soil under scrub. New Zealand, Europe.

Stevenson 1962: Fig. 2/3; Pl. 6/9.

All micro- and macroscopic characters of the species described as H. julietae Stev. agree with H. insipida (Lange ex Lundell) which occurs in Europe on grassy places (see Lange 1940, P. 168 C). This fungus must be considered as an introduced species in New Zealand.