Stemonitis fusca

Sporangia:- cylindrical, obtuse, stalked, brownish purple or almost black, usually in large clusters, sometimes scattered. Peridium, membranous, persistent, purplish in the lower part.
Stalk:- black, shining, rising from a brown, membranous hypothallus.
Colunella:- reaching nearly to the top of the sporotheca.
Capillitium:-  dark brown threads arising from all parts of the columella, combined into a loose network, the ultimate branches forming a delicate smooth or spinose surface-net with angular, unequal meshes.

Spores:- brown on mass, brown violet by transmitted light.