Brown stemonitis ( Latin Stemonitis fusca ) is a species of myxomycetes , a genus of stemonitis , widespread in nature.
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Stemonitis fusca Roth , 1787 |
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Peridium is rapidly disappearing. The column runs along almost the entire length of the sporangia. Sporangium is 6-20 mm high with a long shiny leg, almost half the length of the sporangium itself. Sporulation takes the form of numerous brown cylindrical "feathers", which are located on the substrate in groups, forming groups.
The spores in the mass are dark brown , or brown- violet .
A common species, found mainly in summer and autumn on a rotting tree, dead branches, leaves.