A small, glutinous, reddish‑brown to lilac-pink Gliophorus with broadly adnate-subdecurrent lamellae, an even gill edge lacking true cystidia.

Note: Some Gliophorus species possess UV-labile pigments, and their colours may shift or fade as basidiomes age, particularly after exposure to sunlight. This photochemical change is independent of hygrophany and may cause green, lilac, red or fuliginous tones to bleach white or towards pink, grey or yellow, depending on the species.

Pileus: 5-20 (-25) mm diam., hemispherical when young, later convex to plano-convex; centre often subdepressed and margin sometimes upturned in age. Colour reddish-brown, liver-brown, or lilac-pink, fading towards the strongly striated margin. Surface glutinous and glabrous; margin thin, membranaceous and translucidly striate when moist.
Lamellae: broadly adnate to subdecurrent, whitish or concolorous with the pileus, occasionally grey-lilac and distant. Gill edge even, concolorous, sometimes gelatinised, but without differentiated cystidia.
Stipe: 20-70 x 1.5-3 mm, cylindric, equal, and rarely attenuated towards the base; colours: grey, pinkish brown, or lilac above; ochraceous or whitish at the base. The entire stipe is glutinous and hollow, occurring singly or in clusters.
Context: waxy; on drying reddish to pink.
Odour/tast: absent or slightly like burnt hair.