| Generic short diagnoses: Broadly attached, blackish, inoperculate discomycetes on hardwood, with 1-5-septate spores and a hyaline prismatica textura terminating in chains of globose elements. |
Patellariopsis atrovinosa
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| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-97.046 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-97.046 | 
| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-05.076 |  with triangular "lid" remnant | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-05.076 |  excipulum, spores, ascus, paraphyses, ascus tops† (lugol), ascus base | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Luxemburg, HB 4358 |
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