Like all members of the Maculata group, T. fasciatum has a combination of red petioles with green wings and heavy tar-marking particularly at the interlobes. The leaves are a rather dark shiny green and heterophyllous, the outers with small triangular endlobes, but these are large and helmet-shaped on inners. The exterior bracts are short, broad, sigmoid, pale-pruinose and neatly arranged. It can be confused with T. xanthostigma which has longer more recurved bracts and yellow stigmas when dry.