1. These spores may then infect tissue or remain in a saprophytic stage. 2. Also included in this family are dematophytes and saprophytic species. 3. A saprophytic fungus, it fruits on woodchips or near conifer stumps. 4. This group is saprophytic , except for the genus " Nervilia ". 5. Adhesins are expressed by both saprophytic bacteria. 6. Saprophytic fungi are being researched for their potential role in the degradation of black carbon.7. "Taphrina caerulescens " is an Saprophytic somatic cells overwinter in bark crevasses and bud scales. 8. Most of these species have a prolonged saprophytic stage in decomposing wood as seedlings before developing leaves and photosynthesis. 9. They must obtain these through saprophytic or parasitic associations with their hosts which implicates them in many decomposition processes. 10. In the saprophytic stage the single celled spores grow like yeast, that is to say they bud ( replicate ) directly.