Pileus: convex with an umbilicus; 15 - 30 mm diameter; glabrous, minutely squamulose at apex; deep pink at the centre grading to pale pink with darker striations at the margin.

Stipe: cylindrical curved; 20- 45 × 3–4mm; glabrous; dry; pink.

Gills: adnate; pale pink.

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.