The dark brown cap colour of youth softens in age to become chestnut-brown to yellow-tan.

The tubes comprising the hymenophore are up to 7 mm (0.3 in) long; they are depressed around the point of attachment to the stipe.

Its color is tan to brownish, with a red zone at the top 1–2 mm, and its surface texture features fine longitudinal striations, and brown "hairs" at the very base, The fruit body odor ranges from minimal to "pleasant", and it has a mild taste.

The basidia are somewhat club-shaped, three- or four-spored with sterigmata 2–4 um long, and overall dimensions of 37–51 by 12–15 μm.

Fruit bodies grow singly to scattered in humus on the trunks of Dicymbe corymbosa.