It produces bright yellow, red-spotted, lobed to subfrondose, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees.

Tremella dysenterica was first published in 1895 by German mycologist Alfred Möller based on a collection made in Brazil.

[1] Fruit bodies are gelatinous, bright watery-yellow to deep yellow with orange to scarlet spots and streaks, up to 4 cm (1.5 in) across, and lobed to weakly frondose.

[2] Tremella rubromaculata, described from Guatemala without reference to T. dysenterica, appears macroscopically very similar but differs microscopically in having larger basidiospores (8 to 10.5 by 6 to 8 μm) and basidia.

[3] Tremella dysenterica is a parasite on lignicolous fungi, but its host species is unknown, though collections have been noted on pyrenomycetes.