Cap: fan-shaped; to 70 × 50 × 1-5 mm; smooth, faintly zoned or striate; surface at first ochraceous, darker basally, becoming reddish-brown, finally black.

Stipe: lateral; inflated, to 20 mm long, 15 mm wide; fuscous, rugulose, finely velutinate.

Pores: decurrent; round or angular; 0.5 mm. deep; very small, 7-8 per mm.

Flesh: leathery, corky.

Smell: none.

Spore print: white.

Spores:

Notes: This fungus is recognized by its fan shaped red brown fruiting body with a black laterally attached stipe and very small (7 – 8 per mm) white pores.