Resupinatus applicatus has small, grey, cup like fruit bodies which have fine hairs. They have firm, gelatinous flesh and no stem. They rarely grow to much more than 1 cm in diameter. 

Resupinatus trichotis has a patch of dark hairs on the cap

Good photographs of the species in its habitat and of the cap and gills

It is saprobic and grows on decaying wood.

All year round.

Widespread in the southern half of Britain, but less well recorded further north.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.