Stemonitopsis aequalis
(Peck) Y. Yamam.
Description:
SPORANGIA: total height 4 to 9 mm., closely gregarious, cylindrical, usually obtuse, curved, stalked, purplish brown.

STALK: about half the total height.

COLUMELLA: reaching nearly to the summit of the sporangium.

CAPILLITIUM: a dense tangle of purplish brown threads springing from all parts of the columella, anastomosing and branching, and ending in free tips, usually pale.
SPORES: Violet-brown, minutely and faintly spinulose, 7-9µm diam.

Plasmodium: Milk-white
HABITAT: On dead wood.

DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan, known from Auckland.
Macro images:
Stemonitopsis aequalis
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Scale= 1 mm.
 
Stemonitopsis aequalis
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Scale= 1.25 mm.
Micro images:
Stemonitopsis aequalis
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Magnification = 400x
View of the Capillitium net
 
 
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