Cheilymenia spp.

The fruit body is disc-like or like a shallow cap. Fruitbodies are typically some shade of orange (though more yellowish or reddish shades may occur). They are small, usually no more than 5 millimetres in diameter (but they may at times grow to almost a centimetre wide). The margin is lined with short, brown hairs (the colour not always showing well in photographs).

The fruitbodies appear on dung and usually in groups.   

Several species have bene found in Australia and identification to species is based on microscopic features

Look-alikes

There are several genera with similar small, orange fruitbodies. However, the combination of colour, size, marginal hairs and growth on dung should often make orange or reddish coloured Cheilymenias easy to recognize.

Lasiobolus is a similar hairy, dung-inhabiting genus, with fruitbodies up to a millimetre in diameter.

Scutellinia is another 'orange' genus with brown, marginal hairs but the fruitbodies are almost always on soil or wood. Worldwide, there have been rare reports of this genus on dung.