It typically grows on dead attached twigs and branches of broadleaved trees and is found in North America.

The species was originally described from North Carolina in 1822 by German-American mycologist Lewis David de Schweinitz as Tremella crenata.

[2] The gelatinous fruit bodies are amber, 8–25 millimetres (3⁄8–1 inch) wide, and 4–12 mm (3⁄16–1⁄2 in) thick.

[3] Exidia crenata is a wood-rotting species, typically found on dead attached twigs and branches of broadleaf trees, particularly oak.

[1] It is widely distributed in eastern North America, where it can be found from September through May, thriving in winter.