Summary:
Exidia candida produces fruitbodies with brain-like lobes, that are translucent whitish or grayish, typically with orange or brown areas.

Microscopic:
spores 11-13.5-16 x 4-5(5.5) microns, cylindric-curved, colorless, white in mass, capable of germinating by repetition; basidia "arising as clavate structures subtended by clamp connections, proliferating through the clamp connections to form loose or tight cymose clusters", probasidia becoming ellipsoid to obovate to obpyriform, often with a stalk, then 10-15-20 x 6.5-8.5-11 microns, becoming 2-celled to 4-celled by longitudinal to oblique septa, hypobasidia 11-15-19 x 8.5-11 microns, or occasionally somewhat longer, epibasidia 2-2.5 microns wide at bases, 3.5 microns wide at tips; dikaryophyses forming a layer up to 50 microns thick above the level of the basidia, with basal clamp connections, mostly 1.5-2.5 microns wide toward bases, apically few-branched to much-branched, occasionally cylindric, unbranched, and up to 5.5 microns wide; hyphae 2-4 microns wide, thin-walled, "with numerous, conspicuous clamp connections varying from closed to keyhole to looplike, spurs frequent to scarce", false clamp connections occasional, then hyphae swollen to 5.5-7 microns wide near the septa, (Klett), spores 16 x 8 microns, slightly curved, colorless, with granular contents, laterally apiculate; basidia 16-20 microns, oblong or globose, with granular contents, the basidia are borne near the surface, not deeply embedded as in most tremellaceous fungi; no imbedded ducts and no papillae, (Lloyd)

Notes:
It is found in BC, WA, ID, NWT, NY, and PA, (Ginns). Collections were examined from BC, WA, ID, NS, and ON, and the distribution is probably throughout the northern United States and Canada, (Klett).