Pluteus lutescens, is a common wood-rotting fungus, singly or in groups, on rotting wood, found world-wide. It has a distinctive slender, yellow stem (Latin: luteo = saffron yellow), and is overall quite fragile. Cap to 40 mm, matt to granulose surface, pale yellow-brown. Gills very pale buff becoming dusted pink, not touching stem; spore print pink. Stem slender, pale to medium light yellow, with small white hairs; white mycelium at base. Doctor's Creek walking track, Reefton, 2008.