Terricolous - emerging from thick leaf litter of rawiri (Kunzea linearis), ponga (Cyathea dealbata), hangehange (Geniostoma ligustrifolium var. ligustrifolium) under a dense canopy of rawiri. Colonial. Thallus cap's honey brown above, gills greyish with faint pink cast below, stalk white, mostly immersed in leaf litter