| Generic short diagnoses:
Stipitate, club-shaped, ± greenish, olivaceous or reddish, soil inhabiting, inoperculate discomycetes with hyaline, septate or aseptate spores. |
Species example: |

Microglossum olivaceum - DK: olivenbrun farvetunge UK: Olive Earthtongue - asci and paraphyses*, ascus tops† (lugol), spores* |
Photo and © Hans-Otto Baral France, HB 6541 |
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