Hygrophorus Pileus hemispheric in smallest specimen to expanded in largest, very viscid, scarlet red to scarlet to orange chrome on largest, 5-19 mm; gills white at first, becoming Naples yellow, close, waxy, free or nearly so narrowly ventricose; stipe fragile, scarlet above to light cadmium below, becoming lemon yellow above to white below, moist, innate fibrillose silky, 1-3.5 cm x 1-3 mm. Under Chusquea San José, Guayabillos, 2300 m., Dodge & Goerger 7-7-36