New Zealand: North Island: East Coast; Urewera N.P., Ngamoko, 27.VI. 1968, leg. Horak (PDD 27161, holotype; ZT 68/617, isotype).-Wellington; Mt Tongariro, Whakapapanui Valley, Chateau, 21.V.1973, leg. Taylor, 835. - South Island: Otago: Makarora, Davis Flat, 11.IV. 1971, leg. Taylor, 653. - Nelson: Springs Junction, Upper Grey, 26.11.1968, leg. Horak (ZT MS). Lake Rotoiti, 30.1V. 1968, leg. Horak (ZT 68/323). - Southland: Te Anau, 25,111.1969, leg. Horak (ZT 69/166).Te Anau Bush, Harry Creek, I .IV. 1969, leg. Horak (ZT69/2

Pileus - 60 mm, hemispheric or convex when young becoming umbonate-expanded or depressed at centre; brown to red-brown when moist, fading to orange-brown or pale reddish brown when drying or with age; glutinous, slightly hygrophanous, margin indistinctly striate, covered with conspicuous whitish, ochre or reddish brown patches from veil. Lamellae adnate to emarginate, crowded; pale ochre-argillaceous turning rust-brown, edge concolorous (occasionally lilac), even to crenulateserate. Stipe -80 x -15 mm, cylindric above, base bulbous to marginate; whitish soon turning pale ochre, fibrillose; annulus membranous, striate, persistent, pale brown; towards base with whitish to pale brown, fibrillose to sub membranous remnants of veil; dry, hollow, single, in groups. Context white to brownish in aged basidiomes. Odour and taste not distinctive. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH -brown: HC1, NH3 - negative. Spore print brown to rust-brown. Spores 9-12 (-13) x 5-7 µm, elliptic, mucro none, verrucose, brown. Basidia 25-35 x 7-10 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 30-60 x 9 14 µm, clavate, membrane hyaline, thin-walled, scattered on gill edge. Cuticle a cutis of cylindric, gelatinised hyphae (2-6 µm diam.), cells of subcutis subglobose to polygonal, membranes strongly encrusted with brown (KOH) pigment. Clamp connections present.

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

Pileus - 60 mm, convexus dein applanatus, raro depressus, brunneus vel castaneus, aurantiobrunneus in statusicco, glutinosus, squamis albis vel castaneis e velo obtectus. Lamellae ex argillaceo ferrugineae. Stipes -80 x -15 mm, cylindricus, basaliter bulbosus vel marginatus, pallide ochraceus, annulo membranaceo striatoque et zonis subcingulatis e velo instructus. Sporae 9-12 x-5-7 µm, ellipticae. Ad terram in silvis nothofagineis. Novazelandia.

Typus PDD 27161.