Egg: the immature fruiting body is a white egg shaped sac, up to 50 mm diameter, encasing the stinkhorn in a gelatinous substance. The egg-like sac splits to release the fruiting body leaving a white to greyish brown volva at the base.

Fruiting body: 3 to 4 tapering arms joined at the apex; 25 – 70 mm tall; white; with a groove on the outer edge, roughened on the inner edge that holds the spore mass.

Gleba (fertile spore mass): a thick olive green slime.

Stipe: cylindrical, hollow; 20 - 45 × 20 - 25 mm; spongy, dry, roughened; white; with a large white to greyish brown volva.

Flesh: spongy.

Smell: foetid, like rotting meat.

Spore print: dark greenish.

Notes: this stinkhorn is recognised by its 3 or 4 tapering arms joined at the apex covered internally in greenish slime and its short white roughened stipe with a white to greyish brown volva. It grows in litter on the ground.In North America P. fusiformis usually has pink arms, P. javanicus was described with whitish arms but has been synonimized with P. fusiformis.