A small, viscid, species with a pale argillaceous‑ to honey‑brown cap, often reddish‑tinged at centre, and white glutinous stipe. Lamellae pale argillaceous becoming pale ferruginous‑brown.

Pileus: Up to 40 mm diameter. Conico‑convex when young, becoming broadly umbonate, sometimes obtusely campanulate, and in age occasionally depressed at centre. Colour pale argillaceous‑brown to honey‑brown, often with a reddish or fulvous central tinge. Pigments fade with age, rain, or sun. Viscid when fresh, later merely moist; conspicuously striate?. Hygrophanous.
Lamellae: Crowded (20-30, with 7 lamellulae series). Emarginate to subdecurrent with a short tooth; ventricose, up to 5 mm wide. Initially pale argillaceous, later pale brown with ferruginous tint. Edges entire and concolorous.
Stipe: 55 x 7 mm, cylindrical (rarely slightly enlarged or subclavate at base). White, even in older specimens. Glutinous; cortina rudimentary and fibrillose. Solid, soon hollow; solitary or cespitose.
Context: Pale reddish‑brown in pileus; white in stipe.
Odour/taste: Odour indistinct; taste mild.