It produces pinkish to pale pinkish brown, frondose, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and grows on dead attached and recently fallen branches of broad-leaved trees.

Microscopically, the hyphae are clamped and occur in a dense gelatinous matrix.

The basidia are tremelloid (globose to ellipsoid, with oblique to vertical septa), 16 to 20 by 11 to 18 μm.

Phaeotremella fuscosuccinea occurs in eastern Asia, but is darker and grows on conifers.

It occurs on broad-leaved trees in north-eastern Asia (Japan and Russia).