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