Xeromphalina tenuipes (Schwein.) A.H.Sm.

Common name: None.

Description: The caps measure up to 3 cm in diameter and are rusty or orange-brown. The cap surface is smooth, moist-looking and striate when fresh but not slimy or viscid; the shape is convex becoming plane. The gills are yellow, adnate, distant and connected by veins on the underside of the cap. The stem is up to 4 cm long, 23 mm thick, date-brown and quite tough. The stem surface is smooth and polished but the base is quite hairy.

The spores measure 68 × 2.54 µm and are ellipsoidal, smooth and colourless but white in mass.

Substratum: Xeromphalina tenuipes is always to be found on wood (old logs) and usually in small groups of 25 fruiting bodies among moss.

Distribution: Known from Queensland and New South Wales.

Notes: The bright yellow gills are very distinctive in this otherwise brown species.