Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) of Naohidea sebacea form small, gelatinous pustules on wood-inhabiting species of Botryosphaeriaceae.

Microscopically, they produce long, slender, auricularioid basidia (with lateral septa) and amygdaliform (almond-shaped) basidiospores.

[1] German mycologist Franz Oberwinkler investigated the species in 1990 and separated it from Platygloea sensu stricto, placing it in the new genus Naohidea.

[3] Naohidea sebacea is infrequently collected, but is known to occur throughout Europe and has also been reported from North America, Japan, and Taiwan.

[2][4][5] Fruit bodies are always found overgrowing sporocarps of ascomycetous fungi in the family Botryosphaeriaceae[4] which the species parasitizes through the formation of intracellular haustoria.