Stemonitis splendens

On dead wood on the ground, with stalked sporocarps clustered in large colonies, 1 to 2.5 cm in total height, with cylindrical reddish-brown sporothecae, with a black stipe expanded at the base, 3 to 4 mm long, occupying between 1/3 and 1/4 of total sporocarp height.

Columella dark brown, tapering progressively and becoming flexuous towards the apex.

Capillitium brown, forming an internal net of wide meshes and a surface net of finer meshes without free ends.

Spores globose, pale brown under the microscope in water, 7 to 8 µm in diameter, with a uniform ornamentation of small warts.