Cap: convex to applanate; 25 - 40 mm diameter; glabrous, greasy; white with a pinkish buff centre; margin splitting.

Stipe: cylindrical to clavate; 45 - 50 × 5 - 8 mm; white with a purple tinge at the apex; glabrous, hollow.

Gills: adnexed; moderately spaced; white with a buff tinge; lamellulae in one series.

Flesh: thin, white.

Spore print: white.

Spores: ellipsoid; 12 - 15 × 7 - 9 µm; Q = 1.5; smooth.

Notes: the greasy pinkish white cap with a radially split margin, white stipe and white spore print help to identify this fungus in the field, but microscopic characters may be needed for confirmation. Sequencing shows it to be close to the New Zealand species H. rosella, but that species has much smaller spores.

Patrick Leonard 2020

Support
Growing in litter in wet sclerophyll or rainforest.
Localite
NC 10619, Poya nord, Anne Marie Maviet, 1 Jun 2019.
Reference
Horak E. (1990) Monograph of the New Zealand Hygrophoraceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany. Vol 28: 255 – 309.

Kerr S. (2019) A Field Guide to New Zealand Fungi.

Young A.M. (2005) Fungi of Australia – Hygrophoraceae.ABRS Canberra. CSIRO