In two short surveys of lignicolous, fruitbody-forming ascomycetes in Thailand and southern China, six species were found, of which five were new to science. Two fungi with affinity to the Dothideomycetes, one from Thailand and one from China, are described here in the new genus Aliquandostipite and included in the new family Aliquandostipitaceae. Aliquandostipite khaoyaiensis was found in a tropical ... Read more

Caryospora australiensis sp. nov., Platystomum scabridisporum sp. nov. and Savoryella melanospora sp. nov. are described from driftwood collected from a sand dune at Rye, on the Mornington Peninsula Nature Park, Victoria, Australia. These species are compared with other taxa in these and related genera. Read more

A new species _Dactylospora mangrovei_ is described and illustrated and compared with _D. haliotrepha_ and _D. canariensis_, all marine inhabiting species. _Dactylospora haliotrepha_ and _D. mangrovei_ are tropical/sub-tropical mangrove species collected in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand, while _D. canariensis_ was described from temperate waters. A map of the geographical distribution of the three marine _Dactylospora_ species is presented. ... Read more

Cryptovalsa mangrovei is described and illustrated as a new species from a wood test block submerged in the intertidal zone of Mai Po Mangrove in Hong Kong and compared with C. halosarceiicola, another mangrove species, and C. suaedicola from an intertidal salt marsh plant. Read more

_Halosarpheia kandeliae_ sp. nov. collected on intertidal bark of _Kandelia candel_ is described and its unique ascus morphology illustrated. It is compared with other _Halosarpheia_ spp. and _Aniptodera salsuginosa_. Read more

Random wood samples and decayed attached twigs of _Avicennia marina_ were collected at three locations in intertidal zone of red sea and examined for the presence of higher marine fungi.Thirty-three species in addition to three unidentified species were identified in the present study.The fungi included twenty-six Ascomycotina, six Deuteromycotina and one Basidiomycete.The most common species were _Halosphaeria quadricornuta, Leptosphaeria australiensis_ ... Read more