A COMPARISON OF DIVERSITY OF MARINE FUNGI ON MANGROVE PLANTS AND MANGROVE ASSOCIATE AND THEIR FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE.

A comparison was made of the diversity of marine fungi on five mangrove plants, (Exoecharia agalocha, Aegicers corniculatum, Aegiatilis rotundifolia, Ceriops tagle, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza one salt marsh plants [Suaeda maritima] and one mangrove associate[Acanthus ilicifolius] co-habiting along with mangrove species in a Sajanakhali and Gosoba, Shankarpur2, Basanti, Cannings, Bakkhali, Namkhana, and Ganga Sager cricks of Sundarbans.Thirty three species of marine fungi included in genera like Aigialus, Arenariomyces, Ascocratera, Bathyascus Corollospora, Crinigera Dactylospora, Halorosellinia, Haiyanga, Kallichroma, Lignincola, Marosphaeria, Halosarpheia, Quintaria, Lulworthia, Sagaromyces, Thalassogena and Verruculina among the Ascomycota, Nia from Basidiomycota and Clavatospora, Periconia, Phoma, Phomopsis, Trichocladium among the Mitosporic fungi.Ceriops tagle is host of eighteen marine fungi species, twelve species of marine fungi occur on Exoecharia agalocha, rest of the mangrove host less than ten fungal species.The Frequency of occurrence of the isolated fungi species were also studied.