The small brown mushrooms appear in leaf litter of pines and eucalypts in autumn and winter.

[3] The fungus produces fruit bodies with caps that are up to 7.5 cm (3.0 in) in diameter, convex when young and flattening out with maturity.

The cap surface is orange-brown with flat brown scales, and initially viscid (sticky) before becoming dry.

The gills on the underside of the cap are initially bright yellow before turning a duller tan in maturity.

Species associated include messmate stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua) and white ironbark (E.