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

Gleba(fertile spore mass): sharply conical; to 25 × 5 - 8 mm; covered by an thick black slime which is cleared by visiting insects exposing an pinkish gleba.

Stipe: clavate, subulbose, hollow; 80 × 5 - 25 mm; spongy, dry, reticulate; white overall or slightly pinkish at apex; with a large white volva.

Flesh: spongy.

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

Spore print: sepia.

Notes: this stinkhorn is recognised by its pinkish apex covered in sepia slime and its white reticulate stipe with a bulbous white volva. It grows in litter on the ground.