Cap: width 18-28 mm. Stem: width 8-12 mm; length 40-65 mm.
Description:
Fruit-body: consisting of a saddle-shaped cap on a short stem.
Cap: convoluted towards the centre, two lobed, wavy at the margin, white or cream-coloured.
Stem: cylindric and hollow, white or cream-coloured and unevenly and deeply longitudinally furrowed.
Flesh: thin and pale.
Spores: very long, broadly ellipsoid, with a large central oil drop and 18-20 × 10-13 µm in size; eight contained in an elongate cylindrical ascus.
Habitat & Distribution: Frequent in damp woods with deciduous trees, from early summer until autumn.
General Information: [Plate 68].