Here's an ascomycete that sometimes replaces the main blade-decomposer of smooth cordgrass. Here are the meiospores of an ascomycete species from naked stems , and here's what this one does to the stems that it occupies. This is where to look for the sexual structures of most cordgrass ascomycetes. Here are the outward appearances produced by four cordgrass ascomycetes. Some ascomycetes of the cordgrass-decay system still need to have their names coined and published .
Fungal productivity can be just as high in Maine cordgrass as it is in Florida cordgrass.
Here's a major sink for the mass produced by saltmarsh ascomycetes. Periwinkles like mycelial spaghetti . Dew permits snails to climb . There is at least one other snail that eats naturally-decaying marshgrass. Baby snails can be colorful .