Abundant in New Zealand, it can be found growing under Leptospermum and Nothofagus species.

Growing on the ground usually in late summer, the cap is 2.5–6.5 centimetres (1–2+1⁄2 inches) wide, plano-convex to plano-depressed, buff, non-viscid, with a striate margin.

The volval remnants are pulverulent on the center raised into wart-like peaksor warts or radial ridges, colored pale sepia.

Gills are crowded and free, measure 6–7 millimetres (1⁄4–9⁄32 in) wide, and appear white to pale buff.

[1] This species was originally described from Wellington, New Zealand, associated with many types of Nothofagus, Leptospermum, and Kunzea.