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''Stemonitis fusca'' is a
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
slime mold Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota clades. Most are near-microscopic; those in the Myxogastria ...
. It fruits in clusters on dead wood and has distinctive tall brown
sporangia A sporangium (from Late Latin, ; : sporangia) is an enclosure in which spores are formed. It can be composed of a unicellular organism, single cell or can be multicellular organism, multicellular. Virtually all plants, fungus, fungi, and many ot ...
supported on slender stalks with a total height of approximately 6–20 mm tall.Stemonitis fusca Roth - Discover Life
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Subspecies

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


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q4441613 Myxogastria Species described in 1787