New Zealand: South Island: Nelson: Lake Rotoiti, track to St Arnaud Range, 23.V. 1968, leg. Horak (PDD 27163. holotype: ZT 68/507, isotype). Otago: Milford Sound, 1.IV.1969,leg. Horak (ZT69/218).

Pileus - 55 mm, convex to umbonate when young becoming campanulate to umbonate-expanded; pale grey-brownish to pale argillaceous, with pale ochre tints over disc, strongly hygrophanous and striate along margin,glutinous; white, fibrillose patches and squamules of veil embedded in gluten. Lamellae crowded, pale brown to argillaceous, emarginate, edge even or subserrate, concolorous. Stipe -80 x -15 mm, cylindric to subclavate at base; white, turning pale brown near base, fibrillose; annulus white, striate, persistent; with few, incomplete, white belts of veil towards base; dry, solid, single, in groups. Context whitish to pale argillaceous, watery. Odour and taste not distinctive. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH, HC1- negative. Spore print pale rust-brown. Spores 9.5-12 x 6-7.5 µm, amygdaliform brown, verrucose, mucro not distinct. Basidia 30-45 x 11-14 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 20-35 x 7-12 µm, subclavate, inconspicuous. Cuticle a cutis of cylindrical, strongly gelatinised hyphae (4-8 µm diam.), cylindric cells of subcutis up to 30 µm diam. encrusted with pale brown pigment. Clamp connections present.

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

Pileus -55 mm, umbonato convexus vel campanulatus, albidogriseus dein pallide argillaceus, squamulis albis instructus, glutinosus, striatus. Lamellae argillaceae. Stipe -80 x -15 mm, cylindricus vel subclavatus, albus, annulo striato et squamis subcingulatis basim versus instructus. Caro subargillacea. Sporae 9.5-12 x 6-7.5 µm, amygdaliformes, verrucosae. Ad terram in silvis nothofagineis. Novazelandia.

Typus PDD 27163