HOLOTYPE: PDD 27005 (Isotype Herb. HK. ZT 69/258): "In tussock grassland and herbfield, 3000-40CO ft: Rock and Pillar Range, Central Otago. N.Z.; leg. G. T. S. Baylis, IV. 1969". -PDD 26301: "Secotium ?; On rock strewn ground: Mt Rakeahua, Stewart Island, N.Z.; leg. J. R. J. Moore, 3.11.1936".

Pileus 6-14 mm diam., hemispherical or pear-shaped, clavate, margin of pileus always collar-like constricting the stipe and covered with white fibrillose remnants of the veil; orange or red-brown, paler towards the non striate margin; smooth, slightly viscid, not hygrophanous. Lamellae adnate or adnexed, irregularly anastomosed, lacunose, never exposed; more or less radially arranged; dirty brown, gill edge concolourous. Stipe 10-35 x 1-2 mm, cylindrical or attenuated towards the base, no distinct columella developed; orange or red-brown, covered by silky fibrils of the veil; dry, fistulose with age, no rhizoids at the base. Context whitish, cortex about 2 mm thick, not gelatinised. No smell or taste.
Spores 10-12 x 7-9 µm, oval, in KOH yellowish-brownish, smooth, membrane up to 1 µm thick, with distinct germ pore, bilaterally symmetrical. Basidia 28-34 x 7-10 µm, 4-spored. Chrysocystidia 25-40 x 10-13 µm, fusoid or lageniform, thin-walled, with yellow plasmatic pigment, rare. Cuticle a cutis consisting of repent, cylindrical hyphae (3-6 µm diam.), membrane gelatinised and encrusted by yellow-brown pigment, sometimes plasmatic pigment of same colour present, clamp connections numerous.

On soil among mosses and grasses. New Zealand.

Pileo 6-14 mm lato, hemisphaerico vel pyriformi, margine stipitem cingulato, aurantio vel castaneo, viscido, haud striato, marginem versus fibrillis albis veli instructo. Lamellis irregulariter lamelliformibus, anastomosantibus, brunneis, numquam expositis. Stipite 10-35 x 1-2 mm, cylindraceo vel basim versus attenuato, pileo concolori, sicco, glabro, fistuloso, Caro alba, haud gelatinosa. Odore saporeque nullo. Sporis 10-12 x 7-9 µm, ovatis, levibus, luteobrunneolis, poro germinativo instructis. Basidiis 28-34 x 7-10 µm, 4-sporigeris. Chrysocystidiis 25-40 x 10-13 µm, fusoides vel lageniformibus, pigmento luteo instructis, tenuitunicatis, sparsibus. Epicute ex hyphis cylindraceis gelatinosisque, pigmento incrustatis, 3-6 µm latis, fibuligeris. Ad terram. Novazelandia.

This species is named in honour of Professor G. T. S. Baylis (Dunedin) who collected this fungus several times in the mountains of Central Otago and whose zeal and support has stimulated mycology in New Zealand

Holotypus: PDD 27005: "Rock and Pillar Range, Central Otago: leg. Baylis, IV. 1969".