The fruit bodies are solitary or intergrowable, with a cap-knuckle. Hat 2-5 (10) cm in diameter, convex, then flattened and with a wide, shallow depression in the central part, in young mushrooms with a turned edge, at a young age somewhat velvety. The color is ocher, orange-yellow or orange-brown, becomes paler with the age of the fruit body, sometimes there are concentric zones.
The stem is 1–4.5 (8) cm long and 1.5–15 mm thick, central or eccentric, made, sometimes somewhat flattened, white or pinkish, and young fungi somewhat woolly.
Hymenophore is prickly, not descending on the leg, spines are awl-shaped, rather frequent, up to 5 mm long, pinkish-cream.
The flesh is strong, pinkish, it turns yellow on the air, without much taste and smell.
Basidia 36–45 × 8–10 µm, cylindrical to clavate, four spore. Spores are broadly elliptic to almost spherical, 6.3—8.1 × 5.4—6.3 microns, hyaline, mostly white.
It is considered a good edible mushroom.
A widespread species in the northern hemisphere, found in various forests, forming mycorrhiza with coniferous and deciduous trees, is often found among the sphagnum.
