Egg: the immature fruiting body is a creamish brown to purplish egg shaped sac, up to 30 mm diameter, encasing the stinkhorn in a gelatinous substance. The egg-like sac splits to release fruiting body and leaves a volva at the base.

Gleba (fertile spore mass): conical; to 40×30 mm; deeply reticulate, ridged and pitted with a net like pattern; olive-brown, thick slime is cleared by visiting flies exposing a lemon to deep golden surface; apex perforate.

Stipe: cylindrical, narrowingtowards apex, hollow; 230 × 35 mm; spongy, dry, smooth; white to pinkish or orange; with a creamy brown to purplish volva at the base that is often buried in the substrate.

Indusium: a delicate net like veil (like a coarse mesh) attached at stem apex under the cap, falls skirt like to half way down the stipe; lemon or ochre yellow, orange or salmon.

Smell: foetid, like rotting meat or sewage.

Spore print: olivaceous brown.

Notes: this stinkhorn is recognised by the yellow to golden indusium (skirt) that covers the olivaceous brown slimy gleba and hangs down the stipe. P. multicoloris distinguished from P. indusiatus by its yellow to golden indusium.