Pileus: convex; 20 - 35 mm diameter; glabrous with a varnished appearance, dry; orange grading to yellow at the margin; margin eroded.

Stipe: cylindrical curved; 30- 45 × 3–4mm; glabrous; dry; orange.

Gills: not recorded.

Flesh: not recorded.

Spore print: white.

Spores: not recorded.

Notes: this Hygrocybe does not readily fit any of the species in Horak or Young. Microscopic details of this collection were not checked so it is not possible to reach a determination.