Basidiomes splits into 5-8 rays; inner layer thick, flesh colored; outer mycelial layer thick, finely felted, buff ochraceous to amber, free from debris; endoperidium smooth, sessile, more or less spherical, up to 2 cm in diam., peristome apical, broadly conical, fibrillose, concolorous or paler; gleba amber, spores globose, 2.5-4.5 in diam., minute to finely verrucose. Growing on wood and other plant debris. 

Considered by some authors as a synonym of Geastrum javanicum Lév.

Due to the several records worldwide, we suggest this species to be categorized as Least Concern (LC).

The species is known worldwide (10 countries), with records from America, Eastern Asia, Australasia and Africa.

There are 193 records of this species in GBIF (as Geastrum velutinum), most of them from New Zealand (69) and Japan (39).

Growing on rotten wood. In Brazil, the species is found in Atlantic Forest, Cerrado and Pampa graslands.

In Brazil, there are not many records. It is found in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (hotspots), and Pampa (threatened by grazing and farming).

Reports in Brazil are from protected and unprotected area.

Disjunction distribution might indicate a complex of species. Moreover, the species in considered by some authors as a synonym of Geastrum javanicum Lév.

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