The cap is smooth, slightly mucous, golden-brown or orange-brown in color, often with a dark spot in the center, bell-shaped or convex in young mushrooms and flat with a pronounced tubercle in mature ones, with distinctly furrowed edges. It reaches 4-10 cm in diameter.
The pulp is thin at the edge of the cap, fleshier in the center, soft, watery, whitish, becomes chocolate-brown under the action of phenol solutions. It does not have a specific smell, with a weak sweetish taste.
The leg is fragile, hollow, reaches 8-14 cm in height and up to 1.2 cm in diameter, it is thickened in the lower part, at the base (under the volva) and narrowed to the top, first it is made, then it becomes hollow. The surface is monotonous whitish or whitish-brown in color, smooth, less often with small felt scales.
Plates are free, frequent, white or cream, there are plates.
The spore powder is whitish.
Remains of the cover: the volva is leathery, sac-shaped, whole, does not grow to the leg, whitish or light brown; the ring is missing; there are usually no fragments on the cap either, less often silver-yellow silky remnants are visible on the edge, disappearing with age.
The yellow-brown floater is a conditionally edible mushroom with a pleasant taste, it is used for food only after preliminary boiling.