Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically smooth, ceraceous (waxy), violet-pink or lilaceous to grey, and occur on the underside of fallen branches and logs.

[1][2] The species was originally described in 1883 by French mycologist Lucien Quélet who emphasized the lilac-pink colour of the fruit bodies and gave basidiospore measurements, but failed to notice the distinctive basidia and placed it among the corticioid fungi in the old form genus Hypochnus.

The species was transferred to Tulasnella by French mycologists Hubert Bourdot and Amédée Galzin in 1909.

[3] In a 1994 revision of species, British mycologist Peter Roberts rejected Rogers' synonymy, but noted that differences in spore sizes suggested it was "possible that more than one taxon is involved" under the name T.

[6] Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are effused, smooth, ceraceous (waxy), violet-pink to grey.