| 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 © Hans-Otto Baral Germany, HB 7821 |  fruit-body, hairs, ascus, spores (all †) | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral HB 4353 |
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