A small to medium‑sized golden‑yellow Dermocybe‑like cortinarius, recognised by its dry, finely fibrillose to granulose‑squamulose cap, pure yellow lamellae, pale yellow stipe with brownish‑yellow basal fibres, and strong NaOH blood‑red reaction. Fairly common in Nothofagus forest.

Cap: 15–45 mm diam.; dry, weakly or not hygrophanous. Colour golden yellow, with yellow‑brown centre in young specimens (centre colour persists). Surface finely innate‑fibrillose to finely granulose‑squamulose. Margin not striate.
Lamellae: Colour pure yellow to citrinous. Attachment not explicitly stated, but consistent with Dermocybe: adnate–emarginate. Edges entire.
Stipe: Cylindrical to clavate. Colour pale yellow, with brownish‑yellow fibres near the base; apex paler. Dry.
Veil: dark yellow to brownish‑yellow, sparse.
Cortina: pale yellow.
Context: Pure yellow.
Odour/taste: agaricoid to faintly raphanoid. Tast nil