Cap starts as egg-shaped or convex, later becoming broadly convex, broadly bell-shaped, or nearly flat. The surface is covered with mealy, granular scales and exhibits colours ranging from cinnabar red to orange or rusty cinnamon. Gills white to cream, dense and emarginate or adnate. A finely cottony partial veil covers the gills in immature specimens, tearing away to leave behind a delicate ring. Stem more or less club-shaped, dry, white above the ring, and scaly below, with dark orange squamules. Flesh whitish, firm and stuffed. Spore print white.
Microscopic Features: Spores measure 4-5 x 2.5-3 ยต, with an elliptical shape, smooth surface, and are inamyloid.
Cystoderma cinnabarinum on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
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