It produces light brown to orange-brown, lobed, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is parasitic on other fungi on dead branches of broad-leaved trees.

Fruit bodies are firm, gelatinous, light brown to orange-brown, up to 5 cm (2 in) across, and lobed, often with inflated horn-like processes.

[1] Tremella coffeicolor and Phaeotremella frondosa, also reported from the neotropics, are both brown and gelatinous, but with lobes that are more frondose, less inflated, and not or rarely horn-like.

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

The species was described from Cuba and has been reported from Brazil[1] Guyana, Trinidad, Panama,[4] Belize,[3] Cameroon, and Uganda.