ILLUSTRATED KEY TO THE FILAMENTOUS HIGHER MARINE FUNGI

This treatise deals with all filamentous higher marine fungi described up to the present time, namely, 255 Ascomycotina, 6 Basidiomycotina and 60 anamorphic fungi. A dichotomous key leads to the species and varieties, mainly by using characters of the propagules. All (except 5) taxa are illustrated by original camera lucida drawings of ascospores, basidiospores and conidia, more than half based on type material, the remainder on authentic specimens. The annotated list of species includes concise characterizations of the propagules. Quintaria gen. nov. (Q. lignatilis comb. nov.) and Corollospora novofusca sp. nov. are described, and five new combinations in the genera Coronopapilla, Halosarpheia, Lindra and Lulworthia are proposed.