Fruiting body: obconical (bucket like), narrower at base and wider at rim;

6 – 8 × 4 – 6 mm; external surface covered in shaggy scales, tomentose, inner surface glabrous and strongly plicate (pleated); greyish buff to brown on the outer surface, paler internally with vertical bands of darker brown enhancing the striate appearance.

Epiphram: with a distinct and persistant cap over the fruiting body (epiphram), often remaining attached to one edge of the fruiting body rim; cream or white.

Stipe: absent, attached directly to substrate.

Peridioles: rounded to triangular, dark grey with a paler center; ± 2 mm diameter; smooth.

Spores:

Notes: This species is readily separated from C. stercoreus by its plicate to striate interior and its substrate on woody debris. C. stercoreus is coprophilous occuring mainly on dung or heavily manured soil. C. poeppigii is found in the tropics and is very like C. striatus which occurs in temperate climates.