Spores simple, linear. Perithecium spurious, sometimes excipuliform. Perithecium spurious, innate, multicellular. Spores simple, oozing out in a dark mass. Spores cellular, oozing out in a dark mass.
Spores septate, oozing out in a dark mass.
Spores septate, stellate, oozing out in a dark mass. Spores septate, seated on a cushion-like stroma. Spores collected in bundles, at the tips of hyaline sporophores. Spores of two kinds, coloured, oozing out in tendrils. Spores minute, of one kind, coloured, forming tendrils.