Fruiting body a stalked sporangium. Sporotheca globose. Peridium fugacious with the exception of an apical peridial plate at the apex[is this OK?]. Stalk fibrous. Hypothallus discoid or continuous for a group of sporangia. Columella reaching to the apex and connected to the peridial plate. Capillitium usually emerging exclusively from the top of the columella and the peridial plate, dichotomously branched, not (or rarely) anastomosing. Spores dark brown in mass.
Four species have been described in this genus, only one of which is known from New Zealand.