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Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Article: Stevenson, G. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19(1): 1-59.
Description: Pileus l.5-3.5 cm diam., fuscous to greyish brown, moist and striate at margin, drying fawn to greyish fawn, campanulate becoming broadly conical or plane with a broad umbo; flesh thin, fawn. Gills free, white becoming greyish, moderately distant, deep. Stipe 3.5-7 cm x 2-3 mm fawn, translucent, hollow, fragile, swollen at base. Spores 10-11 x 6-7 µm, amyloid, thin-walled; print white. Hymenophoral trama pseudo-amyloid. Cheilocystidia 30-10 x 10 µm, pin-head and awl-shaped (Fig. 52).
Habitat: On timber of bridge, Otari, 11.5.1949, Stevenson (type).

Article: Horak, E. (1971). A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Notes: From the poor type material we recovered a few spores which correspond fairly well with the data and observations given by Stevenson. As the structure of the cuticle could not be studied the taxonomic position of this species must remain doubtful.