A small, brilliant orange to red‑orange Gliophorus with viscid surfaces, innate fibrils when dry, adnate–shortly decurrent yellow lamellae. An uncommon species and more often misidentified.

Pileus: 5-25 mm diam., hemispherical when young, later convex; in age subumbonate–plane. Colour brilliant orange to red‑orange, fading with age. Surface viscid when moist, becoming innate‑fibrillose under dry conditions; slightly hygrophanous. Margin striated, thin, membranaceous.
Lamellae: adnate to shortly decurrent, yellow, distant; gill edge concolorous, even.
Stipe: 10-25 x 1-3 mm, cylindric or attenuated toward the base; apex coloured like the pileus, base whitish or paler. Surface viscid, glabrous; stipe fistulose; solitary.
Context: orange.
Odour/tast: not distinctive.