| Generic short diagnoses: Fairly tough, olive to brown or blackish, inoperculate discomycetes on wood and woody stems, with fairly large, ellipsoid, at maturity brown, non-septate spores. |

| Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-99.191 |  ascus, ascus bases, paraphyses, ascus tops† (lugol), spores (isome germinating) | Illustration and © Hans-Otto Baral Germany, HB 3148 |
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