Diagnosis: Phylogenetically isolated within Thelebolales. Ascomata open; outer layer of the excipulum with globose to angular cells; capitate paraphyses with intra- or extracellular pigments and asci with forcible spore discharge augmented by an opening limitation ring-type apical apparatus; ascospores hyaline, smooth, or ornamented; either aseptate and ellipsoid-ovoid-fusoid, not producing conidia, or with more than ten septa, acicular-cylindrical-fusiform-acicular, and producing conidia. Ramgea differs from apothecioid members of Thelebolaceae by ornamented ascospores and paraphyses with capitate tips bearing granular, firmly cemented pigment exudates. Patinella and Holwaya differ from Tympanis and Durandiella (Tympanidaceae) and Aotearoamyces and Bulgaria (Phacidiaceae) in excipular composition of mostly globose-angular cells in combination with non-amyloid asci and ascospores.