The fruit bodies of Amauroderma fungi comprise a cap and a stipe, and are typically woody, leathery, or corky in texture.

The spores produced are usually spherical or nearly so, with a characteristic double wall structure that features U-shaped thickenings.

Patouillard described the characteristics of section Amauroderma as follows: "Spores globose or subglobose, devoid of truncated base, warty, woodruff or smooth; crust hat or dull stipe pruinose, rarely shining.

Several stipes may arise from the same base, frequently resulting in fused caps and compound fruit bodies.

The stipe is often duplex with an outer dense layer surrounding an inner softer or hollow core sometimes separated by a black band.

[10] Most basidiospores of Amauroderma mushrooms have an inner ornamented wall on which there is a hyaline (translucent) epicutis, which is very thin and difficult to see in ordinary microscopic preparations.