A small lilac to wine-red (pink) Gliophorus with a glutinous campanulate cap, non-decurrent white to lilac lamellae, and a glutinous fistulose stipe that becomes ochraceous-yellow near the base.

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: 10-20 mm diam.; hemispherical when young, becoming convex to campanulate; never flat or concave. Colours range from lilac to wine-red or reddish-brown, paler towards the striated margin, fading to grey in age. The surface is glutinous and glabrous.
Lamellae: Adnexed or emarginate-adnexed, not decurrent. Colours are reddish-brown, pink, or lilac when young, fading to whitish. Moderately distant. Edges concolorous, even.
Stipe: 15-60 x 1.5-3 mm, cylindric, equal to or attenuated towards the apex. The upper stipe is concolorous with the pileus; the lower stipe is ochraceous-yellow. Glutinous, fistulose, solitary.
Context: Red-brown beneath the pileus cuticle; pink in the stipe.
Odour/tast: Not distinctive.