Species of Albatrellus are terrestrial, with fleshy fruit bodies that differentiate into caps and stems; the stem is either central or eccentric to lateral.
The fruit bodies are large, orange-brown in color, and funnel-shaped, occurring in groves of Dicymbe trees.
The tiny fruit bodies of the fungus resemble minute, white cups that grow scattered or in groups on the bark of ash trees.
L. yakushimensis is known to rear its young in the fruit bodies of the fungus Lactarius volemus.