Dicranophora fulva is a mold of the family Mucoraceae. The species was described as new to science in 1886 by German mycologist Joseph Schröter, who first discovered it near Baden in 1877. Its species name is derived from the Latin fulvus "brown". The yellow mold has been reported from Europe and the United States. Although it is wide-ranging, it is not common. It grows exclusively on the decaying fruit bodies of boletales. Known hosts include Suillus bovinus, S. cavipes, S. grevillei, Paxillus involutus, Chroogomphus rutilus, and Leccinum scabrum. It was not recorded after 1935 until Hermann Voglmayr and Irmgard Krisei-Greilhuber encountered it on a fungal field trip in southeastern Styria in 1994. Initially unable to identify it, they solved the mystery after checking older literature.