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| Stemonitis Temporal range:
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| Stemonitis fusca or similar species in the White Mountain National Forest | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Myxogastria |
| Order: | Stemonitidales |
| Family: | Stemonitidaceae |
| Genus: | Stemonitis Gled. [1] |
| Type species | |
| Stemonitis fusca | |
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.[2] 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.[3] 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).[4]
- ^ a b "Genus Record Details: Stemonitis Gled., Method. Fung.: 140 (1753)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ Gary Emberger (2008). "Stemonitis sp". Messiah College. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
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