Stemonitis axifera

A fairly common species on moist decaying wood on the ground, with sporocarps clustered in bundles or fascicles, 1 to 2 cm high, with a cylindrical sporotheca, light brown to reddish-brown, with a long cylindrical black stipe expanded at the base, occupying more than 1/3 of the total sporocarp height.

Columella dark brown to black under the microscope, tapering progressively towards the apex.

Capillitium brown, paler at the periphery, with an internal net of large meshes and a surface net of small angular meshes with few free ends.

Spores globose, pale brown under the microscope, 6.5 to 7.5 µm in diameter, nearly smooth, with an ornamentation of very fine, almost imperceptible warts.

Herbarium material available: JTP2193/24.