(Sowerby) Pat.
A small, very delicate, pure-white parasol mushroom with a strongly striate cap, free gills, and an extremely fragile ring.
The cap is thin-fleshed, often chalky or finely powdery, and collapses easily.
A widespread saprobe globally, and based on your collections, present in New Zealand, especially in native bush litter and wood-rich microhabitats.
Cap: 15-50 mm, convex to plano-convex, sometimes shallowly depressed.
Colour pure white, occasionally with a faintly cream or greyish centre, but never brownish.
Surface chalky, powdery, or finely granular, sometimes appearing frosted.
Strongly translucent-striate, often halfway to the disc.
Flesh very thin, fragile, white, unchanging.
Gills: Free, crowded, thin.
White, remaining pale throughout development.
Edges smooth.
Stipe: 40-90 x 2-5 mm, very slender, hollow, easily collapsing.
White, smooth or faintly powdery.
Ring extremely fragile, often disappearing early or absent in mature specimens.
Base sometimes slightly swollen but not distinctly bulbous.
Common name: Chalk Dapperling.
Habitat: woodchips, rotting wood, forest litter, compost, and mulch.
Substrate: Saprobic on rich organic matter.
Distribution: New Zealand wide.
Season: Summer to Spring.
Biostatus: Exotic.
Edible: Unknown.
Spore print: White.