Although this species has been described several times over the years, Yet there is still some confusion over what it looks like. As it lives up to it’s name and goes through a colour change as it ages.

Cap: 25 to 45 mm, hemispherical, convex or umbonate-expanded; dark green to green-olive when young turning blue-green or lilac-green with age; margin splitting in mature specimens, Gills: adnate to emarginate, subdecurrent with short tooth, ventricose, olive-green at first changing to yellow. Stipe: 25-75 x 2-5 mm, cylindrical, equal; pale green-blue-lilac at apex, brilliant orange towards the base; dry. Habitat: Scattered; saprobic on soil among litter in native forests.