Fruiting bodies are tiny stalked sporangia up to 1.5 mm high. Columella scanty or absent; capillitium present or absent; stalk pale or dark, containing granular matter in lower part; spores usually bright but some brown; plasmodium protoplasmodium.
Family Echinosteliaceae Genus Echinostelium
Family Clastodermataceae Genera Clastoderma and Barbyella