A small, intensely yellow, strongly glutinous Gliophorus with an unpleasant burnt‑hair odor, non‑decurrent whitish-yellow lamellae, with no cheilocystidial threads.

Pileus: 5-12 mm diam., hemispherical when young, later convex; margin never upturned. Colour lemon-yellow to sulphur-yellow. Surface glutinous; margin thin, membranaceous, and translucidly striate when moist.
Lamellae: adnexed to emarginate-adnexed, never decurrent; whitish to yellowish; gill edge concolorous and lacking a gelatinous thread.
Stipe: 15-30 x 1.5-3 mm, cylindric, concolorous with pileus; often connected in dense clusters. Entire stipe glutinous except the upper portion, which is frequently dry. Stipe solid, flexuous.
Context: yellow throughout.
Odour/tast: unpleasant, reminiscent of burnt hair.