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LOCATION:
Trail End Area
DATE FOUND:
Day 4 – 26 August 2023
On rotting, mossy wood, these small sulphur-yellow clumps were just beginning to form their sporangia – a process known as sporulation [1].
Other Stemonitis‘ plasmodia, such as that of S. axifera, can sometimes be pale yellow [1], but as this is rare, I have identified it as S. flavogenita.



REFERENCES
[1] ‘Stemonitis axifera’
Retrieved from The Hidden Forest website
[2] ‘Strumpshaw Fen Woodland Stemonitis on fallen trunk near The Outpost – Summer 2024’
Retrieved from Traversing the Hinterland