The ascomata are orange-brown and consist of radiating, perithecial lobes.

It consists of radially growing or singular perithecial lobes with finger-like tips on the edge.

The surface is light brown through orange-brown or yellow-brown to ochre, with a lighter edge.

Young fruiting bodies are smooth, sometimes wrinkled in the middle, mature have many ostioles.

[1] Apothecia dimensions (18–) 22–30 × 6–9 μm, narrowly cylindrical, 8-spored, ascospores in one row, ellipsoid to short-fusiform, 1-septate spores.

It is thought to be a parasitic fungus growing on fruiting bodies of Hymenochaete tabacina (willow glue),[3] in Poland it was noted with that fungus, but also on decaying wood with unidentified preexisting white rot, which may or may not have been caused by Hymenochaete tabacina.

[1] Hypocreopsis lichenoides is known to grow in North America, Europe, Russia, Japan and Argentine.

[4] Recent work to raise the profile of willow gloves and conserve them in Great Britain resulted in specimens from the last Scotland locations being translocated carefully to Cumbria, where the fungus was last recorded before its extinction in England about 50 years ago.