This is a conidium of Koorchaloma spartinicola, a new species of sporodochial mitosporic fungus; it is about 18 µm long, and has a medusoid appendage at one end, and a less fancy appendage at the other end. K. spartinicola forms its sporodochia (multi-sporogenous, open structures that produce masses of conidia) on the surfaces of standing-decaying blades of smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), often the same blades bearing ascomata of Hydropisphaera erubescens. Koorchaloma has a sexual, ascomycetous form (genus Kananascus), but the sexual form specific for K. spartinicola has not been found. The sporodochia of K. spartinicola are ringed with 70-µm-long, dark-brown, pointed setae guarding them, and the masses of conidia produced are salmon-colored. Here's a stereomicroscope view. See Sarma, V.V., S.Y. Newell and K.D. Hyde. 2001? Koorchaloma spartinicola sp. nov., a new marine sporodochial fungus from Spartina alterniflora. Bot. Mar., submitted.