Fringed Pinesap includes only one species. This perennial herb of fringed Pinesap is a mycoheterotroph, parasitizing fungi for nutrients. It is yellowish, cream or white in color, lacking chlorophyll, with the tips of the bracts darkening with age. It produces a fleshy stemless peduncle above the leaf litter of the forest floor, reaching no more than 10 to 12 cm tall. Leaves are reduced to scales or absent, as the plant does not perform photosynthesis. The aboveground portion of the plant is essentially just inflorescence, with cylindrical whitish flowers blooming for a short time. It produces a fleshy berry under containing many tiny, sticky seeds. It is native to the forests of the west coast of North America from British Columbia to the San Francisco Bay Area.