| Generic short diagnoses: Small, sessile to stipitate, inoperculate discomycetes, characterized by cylindrical paraphyses and thick-walled, glassy, amyloid or non-amyloid hairs with a narrow lumen, which retain their glassiness in KOH. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-05.063 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.098 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.098 |  asci and paraphyses | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.098 |  hairs | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.098 |
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