It produces pale orange to salmon, foliose, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on wood of broad-leaved trees.

Tremella salmonea was first published in 2019 by Chinese mycologists Xin-Zhan Liu and Feng-Yan Bai based on collections made in Guangxi Province, China.

Microscopically, the basidia are tremelloid (globose to subglobose, with oblique to vertical septa), 4-celled, 31 to 38 by 29 to 37 μm.

[1] Tremella roseolutescens is similarly coloured, but was described from Costa Rica and has smaller basidia and basidiospores.

[2] Tremella rosea is also pink, but was described from Austria and has substantially smaller basidia and basidiospores.