| Generic short diagnoses:
Stipitate, club-shaped to spathulate, dark brown to black, dry or slimy, soil inhabiting discomycetes, mostly with long, ± brown multi-septate spores. |
Species example: |

Geoglossum fallax - DK: småskællet jordtunge - Paraphyses and ascus*, fruit-bodies, ascus top† (lugol), spores* |
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