Stemonitis
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Stemonitis is a distinctive genus of slime moulds found throughout the world (except Antarctica). They are characterised by the tall brown sporangia, supported on slender stalks, which grow in clusters on rotting wood.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The genus was first described by German botanist Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch in 1753. A 2014 estimate suggests that there are 18 species in the genus.<ref name="Doğan 2014"/> Identification within the genus is difficult, and can only be performed with confidence using a microscope or by DNA sequencing. A fossil specimen (in Burmese amber) is known from the mid-Cretaceous (99 ma).<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
SpeciesEdit
The following species are accepted by Species Fungorum:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Div col
- Stemonitis axifera (Bull.) T.Macbr. (1889)
- Stemonitis farrensis T. N. Lakh. & Mukerji (1977)
- Stemonitis ferruginea Ehrenb. (1818)
- Stemonitis flavogenita E. Jahn (1904)
- Stemonitis foliicola Ing (1967)
- Stemonitis fusca Roth (1787)
- Stemonitis graciliformis Nann.-Bremek., Mukerji & Pasricha (1984)
- Stemonitis herbatica Peck (1874)
- Stemonitis inconspicua Nann.-Bremek. (1966)
- Stemonitis laxifila Nann.-Bremek. & Y. Yamam. (1988)
- Stemonitis lignicola Nann.-Bremek. (1973)
- Stemonitis marjana Y. Yamam. (2000)
- Stemonitis mediterraneensis H.H. Doğan & Eroğlu (2014)<ref name="Doğan 2014"/>
- Stemonitis mussooriensis G. W. Martin, K. S. Thind & Sohi (1957)
- Stemonitis nigrescens Rex (1891)
- Stemonitis pallida Wingate (1899)
- Stemonitis rhizoideipes Nann.-Bremek., R. Sharma & K. S. Thind (1984)
- Stemonitis smithii T.Macbr. (1893)
- Stemonitis splendens Rostaf. (1875)
- Stemonitis virginiensis Rex (1891)