| Generic short diagnoses: Inoperculate discomycetes on stems or leaves of herbs or Rubus canes, erumpent with the covering layer splitting ± star-like, with ± conspicuous, protruding paraphyses and a thick-walled, hyaline to brown textura angularis to prismatica. |

| Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral HB 4525 | 
| Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral HB 4525 |  fruit-bodies, ascus top† (lugol), asci and paraphyses*, spores* | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Germany, HB 6751 |
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