A smooth‑capped, reddish‑pink Laccaria with buff‑pink lamellae and a slender smooth stipe, forming gregarious clusters on moist forest litter
Cap: Small to medium, approximately 1-25 cm diam.; convex when young, becoming plano‑convex to broadly convex at maturity. Surface smooth, dry, non‑viscid, lacking squamules or fibrils. Margin even, not striate. Colour pinkish-red to reddish-brown, often brighter in younger basidiomes and duller in older ones; centre sometimes slightly darker. Flesh pale pinkish‑buff.
Gills: Moderately close to subdistant, intermixed, thick, typical of Laccaria. Colour pale pinkish‑buff to pinkish-tan, matching the stipe flesh; Edges smooth.
Stipe:Slender, 30-55 mm long, 2-4 mm diam., ± equal or slightly tapering apically. Dry, hollow, smooth to very finely fibrillose, but not longitudinally striate. Colour pale buff to pinkish-buff, concolorous with lamellae; base not obviously darkened. Basal mycelium white. Stipe surface appears even,
Context:Pileus and stipe context pale buff to pinkish‑buff, thin in pileus, fibrous in stipe.
Odour/tast: Unknown
Common name: None
Habitat: Myrtaceous forest
Substrate: Ectomycorrhizal on soil
Distribution: Auckland
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Indigenous, non-endemic
Edible: No
Spore print: White