Generic short diagnoses: A small, sessile, ± firm, red to reddish brown or blackish, inoperculate discomycete on buff to reddish subiculum on hardwood, with ellipsoid to clavate, aseptate spores.
Patinellaria sanguinea old specimens on hyphal mat
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