Generic short diagnoses:
Sessile to short stipitate, dark brown to black, ± convex, inoperculate discomycetes on deciduous trees and shrubs, mostly in clusters, with large, ± ellipsoid, 1-3-septate spores and a brown textura angularis to globulosa.
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