It produces small, white fruit bodies up to 9 millimetres (0.4 in) in height, each with a single distinct "head" and "stem".

The fruit bodies grow from dead wood, and strongly favours bracken, where the species feeds saprotrophically.

[4][5] In the same year, Samuel Frederick Gray reclassified Sowerby's Clavaria obtusa, naming it Geoglossum obtusum.

Each fruit body consists of a single distinct "stem" and "head",[6] and measures up to 7 mm (0.3 in) in height.

The downy covering of the stem is made up of thick-walled hairs, each measuring 15 to 60 by 3 to 7 μm, though they are often swollen towards the base.

[7] Typhula quisquiliaris fruit bodies are typically found in rows, growing from plant detritus.

[6] The species favours bracken,[7] especially Pteridium aquilinum,[7] but the colonisation of dead matter from other plants is not unknown.