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Abstract
The coelomycete Octopodotus stupendus and the ascomycete Phyllachora paludicola are described as obligate marine fungi from the decomposing salt-marsh plant, Spartina alterniflora. Both species fruit only on the leaf blades, not on the leaf sheaths. Whereas O. stupendus is known so far only from North Carolina, P. paludicola has been collected from Florida to Delaware. The total number of marine fungi reported from Spartina spp. is 41.
We are grateful to Stephen Y. Newell for supplying material of Phyllachora paludicola from Georgia and to Amy Y. Rossman for loans from BPI. We also appreciate helpful comments by an anonymous reviewer. We wish to thank Teri Lynn Herbert for assistance during pilot studies on fungi from marsh plants in North Carolina. Laura White and Howard Barnes assisted with the preparation of the manuscript.