R.H. Petersen 1988
A slender, unbranched club fungus with characteristic pink to rose‑violet colouring, fading with age. Fruitbodies smooth, cylindrical, and often slightly tapered. Typically scattered or in small groups on soil or litter in moist forest.
Fruitbodies: Simple clubs, narrowly fusiform, cespitose in groups, fragile, opaque, appearing waxy, equal or tapering slightly upward; apex rounded. Taste and odour negligible.
Colour: Pink, rose, or pale violet, often deeper at the tip.
Form: Cylindrical, sometimes slightly flattened.
Size: 30-70 mm tall, 2-3 mm thick.
Growth habit: In groups 8 to 30, arising from individual or common whitish mycelial patches.
Flesh: White, stuffed.
Stipe: Striate-silky, paler than club, clearly delimited from hymenium.