Type species: Sporocybomyces pulcher H. Maia. = Sporocybomyces leucotrichoides (Vain.) Xavier-Leite, M. Cáceres & Lücking [MycoBank MB 850515]. Basionym: Calenia leucotrichoides Vain., Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn., Ser. A, 15(6): 166 (1921); Echinoplaca leucotrichoides (Vain.) R. Sant. in Thorold, J. Ecol. 40: 129 (1952).
Diagnosis: Lichenized; thallus continuous, finely verrucose, usually lacking sterile setae; apothecia adnate, spotlike (Echinoplaca type); ascospores large, transversely septate to muriform; hyphophores shortly setiform, blunt, white with darkened apices; diaphyphae fliform with clavate to sausage-shaped, multiseptate terminal segments.