A small waxgill with a reddish‑brown to fulvous viscid cap and distinct lilac to violaceous gills. The combination of a fibrillose to squamulose cap surface, distant thick lilac lamellae, and a silky ochraceous-fading stipe makes it readily recognisable.

Pileus: 10-30 mm, hemispherical then plano-convex; reddish-brown when moist, fading to fulvous; viscid; innately fibrillose or, in age, appressed-squamulose; striate near margin.
Lamellae: adnate to subdecurrent; lilac to violaceous, distant, rather thick; edge concolorous, even.
Stipe: 20-50 x 2-6 mm, cylindric, equal; concolorous with pileus, fading to ochraceous; dry, silky, flexuous; hollow.
Context: brownish-orange in pileus, yellowish in stipe.
Odour/tast: not distinctive.