The surface is dark purple with fine striations when young but it becomes wine red or reddish grey as it ages.

The surface is covered in fine pubescent hairs with spiraling striations up its length and is white towards the apex and base.

Gills: Free or slightly adnexed, crowded and initially white turning pale ochre-cinnamon from the margins towards the stem.

[3] The specific epithet corneri is named for the English mycologist E. J. H. Corner who collected the holotype specimen in 1940.

It was also cultivated for study in the Singapore Botanic Gardens by incubating elephant dung from the forest in under bell jars demonstrating that the growth of the mushroom is first visible in the early morning with the cap opening after dark whilst the volva remains immersed in the dung where it is inconspicuous.