Pileus 2.5-5.5 cm broad, convex to plano-convex, dry, subvelutinous and subrugulose on occasion, becoming finely areolate at margin. Flesh yellow, quickly cyanescent, with mild odor and taste. Tubes adnexed, bright yellow, cyanescent, with pores bright yellow, quickly cyanescent, slightly irregular in outline. Stipe 5-8.5 cm long, 5-13 mm broad, subclavate to clavate, dry, barely subpruinose above, fibrillose striate below, yellow at apex, gradually red below to red brown near base, with obvious mustard yellow mustard brown tomentum at base, with interior yellow above, red to red brown below, cyanescent.