Guepiniopsis alpina (Tracy & Earle) Bres. Fruit body 0.2-1cm high, 0.3-2cm wide, cone-shaped or cup-shaped; bright orange to pale amber when moist, deep orange-red when dry. Fertile surface concave, more or less smooth. Flesh gelatinous. Spores sausage-shaped, smooth, becoming 4-5-celled, 15-17.5 x 5-6µ. Deposit yellowish. Basidia shaped like a tuning fork. Habitat on coniferous logs, stumps, and debris, also on living conifer twigs. Frequent and often abundant. Found in the Rocky Mountains, west to Washington and south to Colorado. Season May June. Not edible