| Generic short diagnoses: Simple or branched, dull to brightly coloured, soil-inhabiting clavarioids, that may have a felty stipe; spores variable as to shape and ornamentation; cystidia or other hyphae than generative not present. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-84.245 |  spores | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, RE2009-72256 |
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