Cap: width 25-70 mm. Stem: width 4-7 mm; length 25-50 mm.
Description:
Cap: bright orange-yellow or apricot, fleshy, soft, depressed at centre and with wavy, incurved, slightly downy margin.
Stem: yellow at apex, rich red-brown or orange about the middle and sometimes dark brown at the very base.
Gills: decurrent, deep orange, thin, crowded, repeatedly forked and easily separable from the cap-tissue.
Flesh: yellowish, pale in the cap, darker in the stem.
Spore-print: white.
Spores: medium sized, hyaline under the microscope, ellipsoid or pip-shaped, smooth, 7-8 × 4 µm and red-brown when mounted in solutions of iodine.
Marginal and facial cystidia: absent.
Habitat & Distribution: Common in woodlands, particularly with pines, and on heaths or in rough hill-pastures.