The genus Saccoblastia is here accepted in the sense of Donk (1966). The only European species, S. farinacea (= S. pinicola.) differs from Heticogloea lagerheimii (= S. sebacea) in its corticioid, non-waxy basidiocarps and the subapical origin of the epibasidia from the primordial hyphae.