A smal to medium sizel, brilliant orange-apricot forest waxgill, recognised by its dry glabrous to minutely fibrillose cap, thick decurrent waxy gills, pale orange stipe, and subglobose spores. A distinctly coloured New Zealand forest species.

Pileus: up to 40(-60) mm; hemispherical to convex, later expanded with a ± distinct low umbo; margin not upturned. Colour brilliant orange to apricot, often with a brownish tinge and darker centre; surface opaque, dry, glabrous to minutely fibrillose; margin non-striate; slightly hygrophanous.
Lamellae: 15-20 (with 1-3 tiers of lamellulae); decurrent; whitish to concolorous with pileus; edges obtuse, entire; often intervenose.
Stipe: 15-50 x 2-5 mm; cylindrical, equal or tapering at base; whitish to pale orange; dry, minutely fibrillose; base occasionally strigose; solid becoming hollow; single or caespitose.
Context: brilliant orange beneath the pileus cuticle, otherwise pale orange or whitish.
Odour/tast: not distinctive.