| Generic short diagnoses: Small, sessile, often barrel-shaped, inoperculate discomycetes with cylindrical paraphyses and thick-walled to solid, glassy, non-amyloid hairs, which loose their glassiness in 5 % KOH. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.127 |  asci and paraphyses | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.127 |  ascus top | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.127 |  hairs | Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-09.127 |
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