Cuba: type locality unknown, Wright 38 (K: type); Mt Baracoa, base of El Yunque, Cooper's Ranch, March 1903. Underwood & Earle 1236 (NY, type of Crepidotus substipitatus Murrill). - Lesser Antilles: Dominica: St Paul, Archbold Preserve, Sylvania, 650 m, 4 Nov 1977, Pegler 3167 (K). - Guadeloupe: Basse Terre, Bois des Bains Jaunes, 1886. Duss (FH, type of Crepidotus laceratus Pat.); Pointe Noire, sur souches pourries de Coccolaba uvifera, Duss 1110 (FH). -Venezuela: Edo. Miranda, Guatopo. 800 m, 27 June 1958, Dennis 1162 (K). - USA: Florida, Sebring, Highlands Hammock State Park, 17 Aug 1942, Singer F 265 (Herb. H. Romag-nesi, Paris); same locality, 6 Sept 1942, Singer (FH, Fungi Floridani, F 613). - New Zealand: S-Island. Westcoast: along track from Taylorville to Mt Sewell. 400 m, 31 March 1968, Horak, PDD 27219, (ZT 68/237); Rotomanu, near Lady Lake, on rotten wood of? Dacrydium cupressinum, about 200 m, 25 March 1983, Horak, ZT 2098 - North Island: North Auckland, Omahuta, on rotten wood in forest dominated by Podocarpus spp.. about 300 m, II May 1981, Horak, ZT 542. - New Caledonia: N of Paita, western slopes of Mt Mou, about 700 m, 5 March 1977, Horak, ZT 77/68. - New Guinea: Papua New Guinea, Eastern Highlands Prov.: Goroka, S of Daulo Pass, on rotten wood in forest dominated by Nothofagus - Castanopsis, 1620 m, 10 Jan 1972, Horak. ZT 72/57; Kainantu. H of Ayura, in forest dominated by Caslanopsis sp., 1600 m, 27 May 1973, Horak, ZT 73/281.

(PDD 27219, ZT 68/237): Pileus 3-25 (-35) mm. hemispherical later becoming ovoid or fan-shaped, irregularely conchiform with lobed inrolled margin, centre convex or expanded, never depressed; at first conspicuously lilac in young specimens, often with pink tinge, original colour soon fading away and cuticle turning brown, argillaceous, pale yellow-brown or cream grey in over-mature specimens; dry, densely covered by silky radially appressed fibrils, margin nonstriate, veil remnants none. Lamellae very crowded, narrow (1-2.5 mm broad), adnate to adnexed; conspicuously lilac at first slowly turning to ochre-brown or rust brown, white edge fimbriate to crenulate. Stipe -6 x -2 mm, cylindrical, eccentric to lateral, strongly curved, occasionally absent and then pileus laterally or sub dorsally attached to substrate; concolorous with pileus; dry, solid, pruinose, occasionally with white rhizoids at base, single in dense groups but never fasciculate; veil remnants none. Context membranaceous in pileus and stipe, brown lilac turning pale brown. Odour not distinctive. Taste like radish. Chemical reactions: KOH - negative. Spore print rust brown. Spores (4-) 4.5-5 x (3-) 3.5-4 µm, ovoid to pip-shaped, supraapicular depression well developed, plage distinct, conspicuously verrucose, warts embedded in distinct perisporium, rust brown. Basidia 15-25 x 4-6 µm, 4-spored. Cheilo-cystidia 12-22 x 3-6 µm, lecythiform, capitate apex -4 µm diam., membrane hyaline, thin-walled, any encrusting or plasmatic pigment absent. Pleurocystidia none. Caulocystidia numerous, shape and size like cheilocystidia. Pileipellis a cutis composed of cylindrical hyphae (2-6 µm diam.), terminal cells not differentiated, non-gelatinised membrane strongly encrusted with yellow-brown pigment not dissolving in KOH. Clamp connections present on all septa.

Cuba (type), Lesser Antilles (Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique), Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil (Rick. 1961), USA, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Guinea.

On bark and rotten wood of decaying logs and trunks of both deciduous (Fagaceae) and coniferous (Podocarpaceae) trees

Horak (1968), Dennis (1970), Pegler (1983, pl. 17, C-D).