Cap: a fan shaped bracket; 30 - 100 mm diameter; glabrous to slightly laccate shiny; upper surface concentrically ridged; dark vinose brown to almost black; margin acute.

Stipe: absent; narrowly attached to woody substrate..

Pores: round; very small; greyish brown with a vinaceous tinge.

Flesh: thin, tough, fibrous; vinaceous brown.

Spore print: hyaline.

Spores:

Notes: This fungus is recognized in the field by its large and very thin dark vinaceous brown coloured fruiting bodies with very small vinaceous tinged grey brown pores.