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Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: ZT9446, NZ-180
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Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus 1.5-4 cm diam., vinaceous brown, striate at edge, broadly conical umbonate, some with a shallow umbilicus on the umbo, smooth, moist; flesh thin, white, fragile. Gills adnexed, vinaceous grey with white margins, moderately crowded. Stipe 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm, pale fawn above to vinaceous brown at base, silky, smooth, hollow, fragile. Spores 10 x 6-8 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus strongly pseudo-amyloid, both with some hyphae 10 µm diam., and with cells of large diameter. Cheilocystidia hair-shaped or pinhead, set in a more or less gelatinized gill-margin (Fig. 50).
Habitat: In soil close to wooden edging of path near Pinus plantation, Brooklyn, Wellington, 27.5-1958, Miriam Aicken in Stevenson (type).