Species of the genus Podoserpula produce fruit bodies consisting of up to a dozen caps arranged in overlapping shelves, attached to a central axis.

[2] Until the 1960s, however, it was known as Craterellus multiplex, a species described by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and George Edward Massee in 1889,[3] and moved to Cantharellus by Curtis Gates Lloyd in 1920.

[5] Marinus Anton Donk, in a monograph published the next year,[7] agreed and placed it close to Serpula and Coniophora; these genera are now known to represent early-diverging lineages in the order Boletales.

[9] In a large-scale phylogenetic analysis published in 2006, Podoserpula nested far from them in the Plicaturopsis clade, an evolutionarily related group of early-diverging members of the order Agaricales.

[12] The name was provisional (not validly published), however, as the description was in French (the code of nomenclature mandates Latin[13]) and lacked a required designation of a type specimen.

[15] The fruit bodies, which grow to a height of 1–18 cm (0.4–7.1 in), consist of up to a dozen cup-shaped (spathulate) to kidney-shaped (reniform) caps arranged in multiple tiers and attached to a central stem.

It differs from P. pusio in having thinner flesh, up to six funnel-shaped caps whose size diminishes approaching the top, and a bright pink coloration in the folds of the hymenium.

[5] P. miranda in contrast, is thought to be ectomycorrhizal, as it appears to associate with Arillastrum gummiferum, the predominant canopy tree in the forests where it is found.