Tubifera applanata

Tubifera applanata is a species of slime mold in the class Myxogastria. It forms 2 to 7 cm wide "pseudoaethelia" (mass of sporangia) that are rust-red in color. They are found growing on damp, dead wood in temperate forests, including where it was first documented, which was on a log of Pinus sylvestris in Ukraine.^[2]

Tubifera applanata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Liceales
Family:	Tubiferaceae
Genus:	Tubifera
Species:	T. applanata
Binomial name
Tubifera applanata D.V. Leontyev & K.A. Fefelov, 2012 [1]