| Generic short diagnoses: Narrowly attached to long stipitate, rather fragile, whitish or brightly coloured, inoperculate discomycetes on various substrates, mostly with fairly large, aseptate spores. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-95.164 |  Fruit-bodies, spores*, margin, paraphyses and asci | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Germany |
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