| Generic short diagnoses: Sessile, pale coloured, inoperculate discomycetes on conifers with cylindrical paraphyses and short, ± cylindrical, thin-walled, white or brownish, apically rough hairs and often brown apothecial base. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-07.026 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.446 |  closeup | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-07.026 |  asci and paraphyses, spores | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-07.026 |  hairs, asci and paraphyses, ascus tops, spores | Illustration and © Stip Helleman The Netherlands, SBRH326 |
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