A small, yellow to orange-yellow waxgill with a distinctly viscid, strongly striate cap and yellow decurrent to subdecurrent gills. The absence of red tones, and peanut‑shaped spores make it readily recognisable.

Pileus: to 30 mm, hemispherical to convex or expanded; obtusely umbonate to subcampanulate; orange, orange‑yellow or brilliant yellow, red tints absent; distinctly viscid when moist; glabrous to minutely velvety-fibrillose; hygrophanous; margin strongly striate.
Lamellae: (8-)10-20(±1-5), decurrent to broadly emarginate-subdecurrent with short tooth; occasionally forked; pale yellow to yellow with faint orange tint; edges concolorous, entire.
Stipe: 10-50 x 1-2(-3) mm, cylindrical, equal or subattenuated toward base; pale yellow to yellow, sometimes with orange tint at apex; occasionally with white strigose or tomentose base; subviscid, glabrous; solid becoming fistulose; single.
Context: yellow, sometimes with orange tint in pileus; whitish at stipe base; brittle.
Odour/tast: not distinctive.