[GS] Pileus 1-4.5 Cm- diam pale testaceous, darker at centre, becoming somewhat striate and grooved at margins, plano-convex to plane with a waved margin, velvety; flesh pinkish, tough. Gills adnexed, moderately distant, pinkish fawn, paler at serrulate margins. Stipe 2-4 cm. X 2-4 mm., pale pinkish-buff, velvety, hollow, moderately tough. Spores8 X 4um non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 2/24, p. 37); print white. Cuticle cellular of a faintly pseudo-amyloid palisade overlying woven pseudo-amyloid hyphae 5-8um, diam. HABITAT: on old Cyathea medullaris stump, Wellington Botanic Garden, 26.4.1949, Stevenson (type); on Nothofagus litter, Silverstream, 21.4.1958, H. Druce. [EH] Cuticle of interwoven, cylindrical, partially gelatinised hyphae with clamp connections. Spores comma-like, hyaline, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, smooth, 7.5-9 X 3.5-4 um Cystidia none. [JAC] stem is pruinose along entire length, stronger at apex and base. The cap has deposits of spores with a partial dextrinoid reaction and some thick-walled, typical of Rhodocollybia (cf JAC12478) and R. purpurata. The latter we know from sequencing has a broad morphology and I believe that is an earlier name, although it posible this represents one of the undescribed Rhodocollybia species. The synonymy with R. purpurata is also supported by at least one of Horak's collections under the name C. drucei which is R. purpurata although that may be a misidentification. Cap a hyaline cutis. Hyphae appear to have thin extra-cellular zebroid hyaline encrustation. Clamps probably present but not seen clearly. Spores length=6.0–7.8µm (µ=7.0, σ=0.56), width=2.8–4.2µm (µ=3.5, σ=0.38), Q=1.7–2.5µm (µ=1.99, σ=0.21), n=20

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Other collections at K Stevenson GS 1289

Pileus 1-4.5 cm diam., pale testaceous, darker at centre, becoming somewhat striate and grooved at margins, plano-convex to plane with a waved margin velvety; flesh pinkish, tough. Gills adnexed, moderately distant, pinkish fawn, paler at serrulate margins. Stipe 2-4 cm x 2-4 mm, pale pinkish-buff velvety, hollow, moderately tough. Spores 8 x 4µm, non-amyloid, thin-walled (Fig. 24). Print white. Cuticle cellular of a faintly pseudo-amyloid palisade overlying woven pseudo-amyloid hyphae 5-8 µm diam.

On old Cyathea medullaris stump, Wellington Botanic Garden, 26.4.1949, Stevenson (type); on Nothofagus litter, Silverstream, 21.4.1958, H. Druce.

Pileus 1-4.5 cm-diam., pallide testaceus, (medio fuscius), marginibus substriatus et sulcatus, plano-convex usque planus, margine undulato, velutinus; came subpunicea tenaci. Lamellae adnexae, modice distantes puniceo-hinnuleae, marginibus serrulatis pallidioribus. Stipes 2-4 cm x 2-4 mm, pallide puniceo-bubalinus, velutinus, cavus, modice tenax. Sporae 8 x 4 µm, haud amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus, in cumulo albae. Cuticula cellularis, e sepimento aegre pseudo-amyloideo hyphis intertextis pseudo-amyloideis 5-8 µm diam. incumbente sistens.

Typus: Stevenson 592.