Dacryopinax elegans is a species of jelly fungus in the family Dacrymycetaceae.

It was originally formally described as Guepinia elegans by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1849.

[2] George Willard Martin transferred it to the genus Dacryopinax in 1948.

Similar species include Guepiniopsis buccina and some in Auricularia.

[4] It appears from June to October in the eastern United States west of New England.