Three species of fungi parasitic on marine algae in Tasmania

Abstract

The field of marine fungi has, in the past, been almost completely neglected in Australia,the only reference to the group being by Johnson and McNeil (19il), who record an unidentifiedascomycete in hardwood immersed in seawater at Sydney.As far as can be ascertained not more than about thirty species of Pyrenomycetes havebeen described as parasitic on marine algae, and in this paper two species of the class parasiticon Phaeophyta in Tasmania are described as new.