| 1. Apothecia growing in coniferous or mixed forests in temperate regions | 2 |
| 1. Apothecia growing in Quercus forests or tropical montane cloud forests | 8 |
| 2. Apothecia growing in coniferous forests | 3 |
| 2. Apothecia growing in mixed forests | 5 |
| 3. Apothecia less than 10 mm with margin crenate, color salmon grown under Cupressus lusitanica | T. cupressicola |
| 3. Apothecia larger than 10 mm | 4 |
| 4. Apothecia associated with Pinus cembroides, excipule light brown | T. pseudobronca |
| 4. Apothecia associated with Abies religiosa, excipule greyish brown warty | T. davidii |
| 5. Apothecia with external surface warty | 6 |
| 5. Apothecia with external surface asperulate | 7 |
| 6. Apothecia color pale orange margin entire, involute to crenate, ascospores 16–22 × 9–12 (–13) µm, ellipsoid-oblong | T. poblana |
| 6. Apothecia color greyish orange with margin crenate, ascospores 17–21 (–22) × 11–14 (–15) µm, broadly ellipsoid | T. texcocana |
| 7. Apothecia substipitate, ascospores 20–24 × 11–13 µm, oblong with blunt ends | T. durangensis |
| 7. Apothecia sessile, ascospores (15–) 17–25 (–26) × 9–13 (–14) µm, ellipsoid to oblong with acute ends | T. americupularis |
| 8. Apothecia growing in tropical montane cloud forest, ascospores 19–25 (–26) × 10–12 µm, subcylindrical | T. mesophila |
| 8. Apothecia growing in Quercus forests, ascospores ellipsoid | 9 |
| 9. Apothecia larger than 30 mm, margin entire to crenate | T. miquihuanensis |
| 9. Apothecia small, less than 25 mm, margin crenate to eroded | 10 |
| 10. Apothecia substipitate, color pale orange, margin involute crenate, associated with Quercus rysophylla and Q. polymorpha | T. victoriana |
| 10. Apothecia sessile, color orange-gray to whitish, margin eroded, associated with several species of Quercus | T. mexicana |