Cap: convex; 10– 20mm diameter; dry; bright red; margin smooth.

Stipe: cylindrical, curved; 10 - 20 × 2 - 4 mm; glabrous; translucent pale red, white at apex, with an abundant white mycelial attachment to its substrate.

Gills: subdecurrent; moderately crowded; white; lamellulae in two series.

Flesh: thin, white.

Spore print: white.

Spores:

Notes: this Mycena is characterized by bright red cap and its white subdecurrent gills.