Stemonitopsis sp.

Sporangia:- scattered or in small gregarious groups, broad, cylindrical, lilaceous brown, with a silvery shiny grey peridium which flakes away with maturity.

Stalk:- up to 50% total height, continues into the slender columella which does NOT quite reach the apex of the sporotheca.

Capillitium:- dark brown fragmented surface net, consisting of thin flexuous threads attached along the length of the columella.

Spores:- Brown on mass, lighter brown by transmitted light, faintly warted with groups of darker warts.

Substrate:-  dead moist wood.

Very similar to Stemonitopsis typhinia when viewed with a 10x lens but clearly different under microscopic examination of the the columella, capillitium and spore ornamentation.