Stemonitis fusca

Stemonitis fusca

''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.
Slime mold - Stemonitis fusca This was just beginning to form it's spores - there were other colonies on the underside which had dried and had the typical brown appearance. Geotagged,Stemonitis fusca,United States,Winter,stemonitis fusca

Naming

''Stemonitis fusca var. rufescens'', Lister 1894

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Taxonomy
KingdomProtozoa
DivisionMycetozoa
ClassMyxomycetes
OrderStemonitales
FamilyStemonitidaceae
GenusStemonitis
SpeciesS. fusca
Photographed in
United States of America