Fruiting body: cylindric fusoid, club shaped; 30 –80 mm tall, 10 – 30 mm wide; smooth, matt; dark grey to black.

Stipe :absent or with a short cylindrical stalk; black; insititious.

Flesh: tough, whitish.

Spore print: black?

Spores:

Notes: this Xylaria is quite large, finger like and grows on wood.Dennis cites the first New Caledonian record being found in 1886.