A highly diverse fungal community associated with leaves of the mangrove plant var. revealed by isolation and metabarcoding analyses.

A high diversity of culturable foliar endophytic fungi is known from various mangrove plants, and the core taxa include species from , , , , , among others. Since a small fraction of fungi is able to grow in culture, this study investigated the diversity of fungi associated with leaves of var. using both isolation and metabarcoding approaches.