| Generic short diagnoses: Elongate, immersed to erumpent, inoperculate discomycetes on bark of conifers, with greyish to brownish discs and ellipsoid to fusiform, hyaline or yellowish, dextrinoid spores with a transverse or muriform septation. |

| Illustration and © Roy Kristiansen Norway, 22/8 1998 | 
| Illustration and © Roy Kristiansen Norway, 22/8 1998 |  fruit-body, paraphyses apices, ascus top, spores* | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral France, HB 3372 |
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