Generic short diagnoses: Greyish to brown, inoperculate discomycetes on leaves, twigs and culms, erumpent through a lid, with aseptate spores, a hyaline to pale brown excipulum and thin-walled, smooth or granulose hairs. |

| Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Germany, HB 7371 |  fruit-bodies, asci and paraphyses*, spores* | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Germany, HB 7371 |
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