COLLECTIONS EXAMINED: Under (1) N. fusca and N. menziesii, Nelson, Maruia, Mar 1966, J. A. McRobb, 25241; Maruia, Jackson's Creek, 23 Mar 1966, R.F.R. McN., (HOLOTYPE, PDD 25242); (2) N. menziesii. Otago, Tapanui, Black Gully, Mar 1966, R.F.R. McN., 25243.

PILEUS: convex, 2-4.5 cm diam., dry, finely felted to subtomentose when young, becoming coarsely fibrillose-scaly at maturity, olive at first, cuticle rupturing at maturity to form adpressed scales and exposing the yellowish brown or reddish context beneath; cuticle a disorganised cutis; scales composed of septate hyphae 4-7 µm. diam., with brownish contents; margin entire to slightly crenulate-lacerate. extending beyond pores. HYMENOPHORE: tubes 6-10 mm long. deeply excavated around apex of stipe, yellow; pores dark red, concolorous with apex of stipe, angular, 0.5-(l) mm diam. STIPE: 3.5-5.5 cm long. more or less equal, 0.5-1 cm diam., solid, dry, with adpressed squamules often arranged in irregular rings around stipe, dark red apically, yellow basally; flesh and basal mycelium bright yellow, annulus absent. SPORES: spore print not obtained; spores deep melleous, broadly elliptical to elliptic-subfusiform, occasionally obovate. 9.7-14.3 X 4.5-7.2 µm, smooth. HYMENIUM: basidia hyaline, clavate, 32-49 X 9.8-14 µm, 4-spored; cystidia sparse, scattered, hyaline, thin-walled, subcylindrical to narrowly ventricose-rostrate, 45-63x4-7 µm. HYMENOPHORAL TRAMA: bilateral, of the Phylloporus subtype; clamp connections absent. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: bright yellow, unchanging on exposure to air. TASTE AND SMELL: not distinctive.

HABITAT: Gregarious or occasionally caespitose under Nothofagus.

Pileus convexus, 2-4.5 cm diam., siccus, subtiliter coactus ad subtomentosum ubi juvenilis, crasse fibrilloso-squamosus ubi maturus, olivaceus ubi juvenilis, subfulvus vel rubeus cum squamis olivaceis ubi maturus. Tubi alte excavati, flavi; pori rubidi, angulares, 0.5-(l) mm diam. Stipes 3.5-5.5 cm longus, plus minusve aequalis, 0.5-1 cm diam., squamulosus, ad apicem rubidi, ad basim flavi. Sporae late ellipticae ad elliptico-subfusiformes, subinde obovatae, 9.7-14.3 X 4.5-7.2 µm, leves. Typus Nelson Province, Maruia, Jackson's Creek, 23 Mar 1966, R.F.R. McN., PDD 25242.