Generic short diagnoses: Small, erumpent or superficial, whitish or yellowish, inoperculate discomycetes on Typha and Cyperaceae, with large, 1-celled spores, projecting, lanceolate paraphyses and a hyaline to brown excipulum. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-00.113 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-00.113 |  Hairs*, paraphyses*, spores* | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Germany, HB 3309 |
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