A lignicolous, annual to biennial species forming thin, leathery, laterally attached brackets or fan‑shaped crusts. Distinguished by its dark brown tomentose to silky cap

Basidiomata: Annual or biennial, solitary or in groups, leathery, attached by a lateral base. Fruitbodies applanate, conchate, or fan‑shaped, 10–80 mm wide, 1–2 mm thick.
Pileus: Surface initially tomentose, becoming glabrous, silky, and shining with age. Strongly concentrically sulcate. Colour dark brown, becoming blackish in old specimens; occasionally showing concentric bands of varying brown shades. Margin concolorous or darker, crenate.
Pore Surface: Even, with a sterile margin 1-2 mm wide. Colour cinnamon brown to dark brown. Pores small, 8-9 per mm, forming a fine, even poroid hymenophore.
Context: Cinnamon brown to dark brown, up to 1 mm thick, tough and leathery.