Stemonitis fusca
Appearance
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Fruiting bodies on rotting downed log of Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) | |
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Species: | S. fusca
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Stemonitis fusca Roth, 1787
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Stemonitis fusca is a species of slime mold. It fruits in clusters on dead wood and has distinctive tall brown sporangia supported on slender stalks with a total height of approximately 6–20 mm tall.[1]
Subspecies
Stemonitis fusca var. rufescens, Lister 1894
References
Further reading
- McManus, M. Annunciata; Richmond, M. Vianney (1961). "Spore to Spore Culture on Agar of Stemonitis fusca". American Midland Naturalist. 65 (1): 246. doi:10.2307/2423016.
- Gray, William D. (1936). "Notes on the plasmodial behaviour of Stemonitis fusca Roth". Proceedings Indian Academy of Sciences. Plant Sciences. 45: 74–6.
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