Pileus: convex with a distinct umbo; 15 - 30 mm diameter; striate, fibrillose; purplish grey.

Stipe: cylindrical; 20 - 25 × 3 – 4 mm; glabrous; purple with a white base.

Gills: adnate to shallow adnexed; moderately crowded; greyish brown; with lamellulae in two series.

Smell: not recorded.

Spore print: brown.

Spores: ellipsoid; 10 × 7.5 µm; smooth.

Notes: this Inocybe has a convex umbonate purplish grey cap. Sequencing suggests it is identical to this species described from Western Australia, a very odd distribution.

Support

Growing in dry sclerophyll scrub.

Localite

NC 320619, Route de Yate, Patrick Leonard, 6 June 2019.

Reference

Ducousso, Proust & Kpenou (2010) Premier inventaire des champignons (macromycetes) de quatre forets seche de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Rapport 07/2010.

Matheny PB, Bougher NL (2004). "A new violet species of Inocybe (Agaricales) from Urban and Rural Landscapes in Western Australia". Australasian Mycologist. 24 (1): 7–12.

Patrick Leonard text 2019

Jerry Cooper sequencing 2020