Purple‑skinned truffle-like fungus with olive-brown loculate gleba and large schizogenous cavities; common in NZ Nothofagus forests.

Basidiome: u p to 100 mm diam., globose to depressed, larger specimens often irregularly dimpled and grooved. Peridium purple to violet when fresh, paler on exposed areas, bruising brown; surface tomentose to scaly.
Columella: often poorly developed, dendroid, translucent when fresh, dark brown when dried.
Gleba: olive brown to deep yellowish brown, dark greyish brown in age; locules elongate to irregular, partially filled with spores, developing large schizogenous cavities up to 20 mm diam. at maturity.
Odour/Tast: Taste slightly peppery. Odour absent.