Found on sandy ground, growing from a green mat. Pine Barrens.
"Fruiting body 0.5-1.0 cm tall, 0.75-1.0 mm thick, a simple, erect, strand, only occasionally branched, straight or with a basal bend, equal to tapering to a slightly enlarged apex; upper two-thirds fertile, glabrous, oval in cross-section, cream-buff to pale orange-buff, tips in age or on drying brown; sterile lower portion scarcely distinct from fertile area, usually pallid to white, with occasional sparse hairs; context pliant, solid to stuffed, cream-colored, incorporating clumps of algal cells; odor and taste mild. Swampy area. Gregarious, sometimes forming large colonies on algae covered banks; fruiting from mid to late winter." Mycoweb-California.