| Generic short diagnoses: Sessile to stipitate, hairy, mostly whitish, rarely pinkish to orange coloured, inoperculate discomycetes with ± hyaline, entirely rough, septate hairs and mostly lanceolate, protruding paraphyses. Not rarely turing red-brown with age due to refractive vacuolar guttules in paraphyses and hairs. Excipulum of textura prismatica. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-06.089 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-07.297 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-07.297 |  closeup | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-07.297 |  section through fruit-body | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, 1994 |
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