It is first covered with fine grey, floccose squamules, and smoothens with age, drying orange-brown.

The gills are decurrent and white, drying greyish orange.

A partial veil is well developed, and does not leave a recognisable ring.

The species is similar to Pleurotus dryinus from the same subgenus (Lentodiopsis), but has smaller spores and a darker pileus.

[2] This mushroom is saprobic on dead wood in coastal forests of New Zealand.