Pileus: hemispherical to campanulate; 10 - 20 mm diameter; glabrous; glutinous; lilac to wine red or red brown; margin striate.

Stipe: cylindrical; 15 - 60 × 1.5–3 mm; glabrous; glutinous; white tinted lilac to wine red or red brown.

Gills: adnexed; moderately distant; whitish tinted reddish brown, pink or lilac.

Flesh: red brown beneath cuticle, pink in stipe.

Spore print: white.

Spores: ellipsoid; 7 – 8.5 × 4 – 4.5 µm; smooth.

Notes: this species is recognized by its lilac to red brown glutinous cap, and paler whitish gills and glutinous stipe.