A bright red‑orange waxgill with a viscid, striate‑margined cap and a distinctly hollow, fragile stipe
Note: It looks like my photos dont match the species description very well even though this is were the keys lead me to, more work is needed.
Pileus: 20-45 mm, convex then broadly umbonate or becoming concave; red‑yellow to deep orange‑red, viscid, with minute radial concolorous fibrils; margin striate.
Lamellae: emarginate‑adnexed to adnate, yellow to red‑orange, ventricose; edge crenulate, concolorous.
Stipe: 25-60 x 4-10 mm, cylindric or attenuated below, red‑orange, paler to yellowish‑grey at base; fibrillose, viscid, hollow and fragile.
Context: reddish‑orange; odor and taste not distinctive.
Odour/tast: not distinctive.
Common name: None
Habitat: Myrtaceae forest
Substrate: Saprobic, on soil amidst leaf litter
Distribution: New Zealand wide
Season: Autumn
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: White