| Generic short diagnoses: Sessile to stipitate, small, waxy-semitranslucent, hyaline, pale orange or greenish discomycetes with narrow, non-stipitate asci with croziers, living spores with spore bodies at both ends, a thin, often warted epithecium and a hyaline textura prismatica. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-05.049 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-00.275 |  Fruit-bodies, margin*, spores*, asci and parafyses* | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral France, HB 6618 |
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