Egg: the immature fruiting body is a white to pale pink egg shaped sac, up to 30 mm, encasing the stinkhorn in a gelatinous substance. The egg-like sac splits to release the rapidly expanding fruiting body and leaves an elongated volva at the base. Often found with several eggs growing together.

Gleba (fertile spore mass): sharply conical; to 15×10 mm; covered by an olivaceous thick slime which is cleared by visiting insects exposing a red surface; apex perforate.

Stipe: cylindrical, narrowing towards the apex, hollow; 40 - 120×10 - 15 mm; spongy, dry, reticulate; white overall or slightly pinkish at apex; with an elongated whitish volva.

Indusium: absent.

Flesh: spongy.

Smell: foetid, like rotting meat, but faint compared to other Phallales.

Spore print: olivaceous brown.

Notes: this stinkhorn is recognised by its red gleba covered in olivaceous slime and its white reticulate stipe with an elongated white volva. It grows in litter on the ground.