Fruiting body: obconical (bucket like), narrower at base and wider at rim;

10 – 15 × 5 – 6 mm; external surface covered in shaggy scales, tomentose, inner surface glabrous and strongly plicate (pleated); dark brown on the outer surface, paler internally with vertical bands of darker brown enhancing the striate appearance.

Epiphram: with a distinct and persistant cap over the fruiting body (epiphram).

Stipe: absent, attached directly to substrate.

Peridioles: rounded to triangular, dark grey with a paler center; ± 3 mm diameter; smooth.

Spores:

Notes: This species is readily by its tall slender fruiting bodies,plicate interior and its substrate on woody debris. C. poeppigii is much shorter, rarely more than 8 mm tall.