Fruiting body: ovoid, gasteroid; 40 × 35 mm; glabrous, but becoming slightly verrucose with age, pale brown  at apex and paler greyish orange  below.

Stipe: rooting stem part buried to 20 mm; composed of numerous branching rhizoids which combine in to a pseudostipe; 60 × 35 mm; bright orange to carrot (5A8).

Flesh: granular ovoid to irregular cells, pale brown (5C4), surrounded by ochraceous tissue contained in a thick walled and dark staining gleba.

Spore print: brown.

Spores: subglobose; reticulate.

Notes: This species is characterised by its pale brown fruiting body suspended on bright orange rhizoids, and its reticulate spores.