| Generic short diagnoses: Sessile to short stipitate, delicate, pale to vividly coloured, inoperculate discomycetes with ± cylindrical to lanceolate, often protruding paraphyses, cylindrical to mostly narrowing, septate, smooth hairs and a pronounced drop in the ascus below the spores. |
Psilachnum eburneum |
 | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-05.047 |
 asci and paraphyses, spore*, ascus, paraphyses | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Germany, HB 3226 |
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