Cap 20-60 mm, viscid, hygrophanous, sometimes weakly; warmly yellow-brown with a faint orange tinge, disk darker, slightly red-brown, young with a thin yellow frost; glabrous to innate fibrillose; margin greyish yellow with a conspicuous yellow rim, not striate. Gills yellow-grey. Stipe cylindrical to clavate, dry; dirty white to yellowish with sometimes thick yellow girdles on lower part, apex white. Veil yellow, fairly copious to sparse. Flesh yellow to yellow-brown, sometimes with a red-brown tinge; odour faintly raphanoid; taste nil or slightly fetid. Reactions: NaOH strongly yellow-orange to red on cutis and stipital veil, sometimes weaker; guayac green. Micro: spores elliptic, 6.5-8.2 × 4-5 μm, rather weakly verrucose.

In Nothofagus forest, fairly common.

The species may look like a Telamonia when small or in dry conditions, has been shown by molecular markers to belong to section Icterinula, which is mostly composed of dermocyboid species. It can be recognised by a remarkable yellow rim on the cap, often paired by yellow veil girdles on the stipe. Cf. C. viscoviridis, which also presents a yellow rim, but whose stipe is glutinous.