Fruiting body: pleurotoid, broadly attached to substrate: 30 – 50 × 25 – 40 mm; part closest to point of attachment heavily hirsute, outer lobes glabrous; hirsute area dark reddish brown glabrous outer areas paler, light brown; margin entire, involute.

Stipe: absent or vestigial.

Gills: sub-decurrent; radiating from point of attachment with 2 or more series of intervening lamellulae; white at first becoming very pale tan; partly serrate.

Flesh: thin, tough, rubbery.

Spore print: white.

Spores: subglobose; 3.6 – 4.9 × 3.1 – 4.2 μm, Q = 1.12; strongly amyloid and ornamented with very small fine spines.

Notes: this laterally attached brown fungus has a rubbery feel to it and a distinctly hairy top. It has a worldwide distribution.