| Generic short diagnoses: Coloured, tough resupinates, typically fruiting above ground (xerotolerant), with ellipsoid, cylindrical or allantoid, non-amyloid spores and with thick-walled, encrusted cystidia and/or with sulphocystidia; several species with dendrohyphidia. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen England, JHP-99.157 |
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