[1][2] It was first described in 1861 by the Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries who classified it as Pterula multifida based on specimens he had found in 1857.

Pterula multifida is a small whitish coral fungus with a delicate branching structure.

Fruit body: 1-5mm thin, hairlike coral that branches repeatedly towards the smooth and shiny pointed tips.

[10] The specimens observed by Fries were found growing on sprigs of Spruce on the ground in the Uppsala Botanical Garden, Sweden in 1857.

[3][4] In 1873 this species was included in Charles Montague Cooke's list of British fungi citing a specimen documented by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome which had been communicated to them by Walter Calverley Trevelyan.

[12] This species is not commonly recorded in the United Kingdom but has been found in Berkshire, East & West Norfolk, Northamptonshire, North Somerset, South Devon, Surrey, Warwickshire and Glamorganshire in Wales.

[13] It grows solitary or in small trooping groups from late Summer to Autumn in England.