This is one of the two green Gliophorus species. It tends to fade to white around the cap margins in age but is easily identified by the presence of cheilocystidia along the gill edge this can be seen with a hand lens.

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 toward grey or yellow.

Pileus: 10-40 mm diam.; hemispherical when young, later plano‑convex to subumbilicate. Colour grass‑green to moss-green, paler toward the translucently striate margin. Surface glutinous.
Lamellae: Broadly adnate to decurrent, distant; colour whitish-greenish with a grey gelatinised gill edge. Edges entire.
Stipe: 25-70 x 2-5 mm, cylindric; apex concolorous with pileus, lower stipe whitish to orange. Glutinous throughout, glabrous, fistulose, solitary.
Context: Greenish, turning pink on drying.
Odour/tast: Unpleasant, like burnt hair.