A buff‑tan coral fungus with flattened ascending branches, prolonged‑acute apices, and a distinct stipe arising from stout white rhizomorphs and white resupinate patches. Flesh bruises slow brown, odour faintly anise‑like, taste bitter.

Fruitbody: To 90 x 40 mm, repeatedly branched, usually with a distinct stipe arising from stout white tough rhizomorphs and often from extensive, separable, white submembranous resupinate patches.
Stipe: To 2.5 mm x 3-5 mm, usually distinct but sometimes very short. Pale beige to off‑white below; seldom terete, usually grooved or channelled, especially upward where it becomes concolourous with the branches.
Branches: In 3-5 ranks, ascending, substrict to lax and curved‑ascending, often flattened. Colour uniformly beige to buffy tan (“light ochraceous”, “light ochraceous buff”, “pinkish buff”). Axils openly to narrowly rounded; internodes gradually diminishing.
Apices: Usually prolonged‑acute, slightly paler than branches (“pale ochraceous buff”, “cartridge‑buff”, “pale cinnamon‑pink”). Hymenium amphigenous, except occasionally forming a sterile line in axils.
Odour/taste: Odour Mildly of anise to negligible. Taste Bitte