| Generic short diagnoses:
Sessile to short stipitate, unicoloured, inoperculate discomycetes on all sort of substates, characterized by short hairs which are distinctly rough in their apical part, but usually not entirely. |
Species example: |

Cistella acuum - DK: nåle-hårskive - Fruit-bodies, hairs*, asci and paraphyses*, ascus top† (lugol), spores* |
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