The hymenophoral (gill-producing) tissue is made of thin-walled hyphae that are 7–20 μm wide, cylindrical (but often inflated), smooth, hyaline (translucent), and dextrinoid (staining reddish to reddish-brown in Melzer's reagent).

The cap cuticle is made of parallel, bent-over hyphae that are 3–5 μm wide, cylindrical, and covered with simple to highly branched colorless diverticulae that have thin walls.

The layer of hyphae underneath the cap cuticle have a parallel arrangement, and are hyaline and dextrinoid, and made of short and inflated cells that are up to 52 μm wide.

The stem cuticle is made of parallel, bent-over hyphae that are 2–10 μm wide, cylindrical, diverticulate, colorless or pale violet, dextrinoid, and thin-walled.

[2] Within the section Mycena, M. multiplicata is similar to the Malaysian species M. obcalyx in having a grayish-white cap, lobed cheilocystidia with finger-like outgrowths, and a lignicolous habitat.

M. obcalyx may be distinguished by forming much smaller fruit bodies (with caps 2–4 mm wide) with subdecurrent gills, a pruinose (dusty-looking), hyaline (glassy) white stem, and broadly ellipsoid spores.

It is found growing solitary or scattered, on dead fallen twigs in lowland forests dominated by the oak species Quercus myrsinaefolia and Q. serrata.