Stemonitis
{{Short description|Genus of slime moulds}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Cenomanian|Present}}
| image = Stemonitis fusca.jpg
| image_caption = Stemonitis fusca or similar species in the White Mountain National Forest
| taxon = Stemonitis
| authority = Gled. {{cite web |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=12235 |title=Genus Record Details: Stemonitis Gled., Method. Fung.: 140 (1753) |work=Species Fungorum |publisher=CAB International |accessdate=April 12, 2012}}
| type_species = Stemonitis fusca
| type_species_authority = Roth in Roemer & Usteri (1787)
}}
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/club%20and%20coral/species%20pages/Stemonitis.htm |title=Stemonitis sp. |year=2008 |author=Gary Emberger |accessdate=April 13, 2012 |publisher=Messiah College}} 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. 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).{{Cite journal|last1=Rikkinen|first1=Jouko|last2=Grimaldi|first2=David A.|last3=Schmidt|first3=Alexander R.|date=December 2019|title=Morphological stasis in the first myxomycete from the Mesozoic, and the likely role of cryptobiosis|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=9|issue=1|page=19730|doi=10.1038/s41598-019-55622-9|pmid=31874965|pmc=6930221|bibcode=2019NatSR...919730R|issn=2045-2322|doi-access=free}}
Species
The following species are accepted by Species Fungorum:{{cite web |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/names/Names.asp?strGenus=Stemonitis |title=Stemonitis |work=Species Fungorum |publisher=CAB International |accessdate=April 12, 2012}}
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- 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)
- 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)
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References
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Stemonitis|Stemonitis}}
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