Fruiting body: ovoid, gasteroid; 70 × 45 mm; glabrous, dry slightly warty; chalk white with ochraceous brown near base.  

Stipe: rooting stem tough, tapering; 20 × 18 mm; usually buried in its substrate.

Flesh: granular ovoid cells (peridioles) yellow ochraceous or olivaceous, surrounded by dark brown to almost black sticky tissue contained in a thin walled and pale gleba.

Spore print: brown.

Spores:

Notes: looking a little like an elongated golf ball this white Pisolithus with a buried stem is relatively easy to recognize in the field.