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What do you mean by "too hard to eat" in {{Mycomorphbox}}?
Too difficult to prepare?
Too rigid to chew?
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Too rigid to chew. Plantdrew (talk) 16:45, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240528164500","author":"Plantdrew","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Plantdrew-20240528164500-184.146.170.127-20240528164200","replies":[]}}-->
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Should Hugueninia (fungus) (which is marked as "later homonym (do not use)") be changed to a redirect to Cyclotheca? Лисан аль-Гаиб (talk) 05:44, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240614054400","author":"\u041b\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d \u0430\u043b\u044c-\u0413\u0430\u0438\u0431","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-\u041b\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d_\u0430\u043b\u044c-\u0413\u0430\u0438\u0431-20240614054400-Obsolete_genus_name_Hugueninia_(fungus)","replies":["c-Esculenta-20240614141200-\u041b\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d_\u0430\u043b\u044c-\u0413\u0430\u0438\u0431-20240614054400"]}}-->
Yes it should; I've done so and updated Cyclotheca accordingly. Esculenta (talk) 14:12, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240614141200","author":"Esculenta","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Esculenta-20240614141200-\u041b\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d_\u0430\u043b\u044c-\u0413\u0430\u0438\u0431-20240614054400","replies":[]}}-->
User:SageOst2024 is trying to get Draft:Complex Xylaria Hypoxilon through AfC. This article is about a species complex including Xylaria hypoxylon. I have proposed incorporating information about the species complex into Xylaria hypoxylon, but I don't know enough about fungi to know whether the species complex should have a separate article. Can anyone help out? Un assiolo (talk) 14:24, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240710142400","author":"Un assiolo","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Un_assiolo-20240710142400-Assistance_needed","replies":["c-Esculenta-20240710153100-Un_assiolo-20240710142400","c-Awkwafaba-20240710161600-Un_assiolo-20240710142400"]}}-->
You are correct, the species complex information should be incorporated into the main Xylaria hypoxylon article. As individual species in the complex get described, separate articles will eventually be made for them. For an example, see the taxonomy section of Parmelia saxatilis. Esculenta (talk) 15:31, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240710153100","author":"Esculenta","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Esculenta-20240710153100-Un_assiolo-20240710142400","replies":["c-Jts1882-20240710161500-Esculenta-20240710153100"]}}-->
Agreed. There seems very little information to justify an article on the complex. It's not clear what species should be included, only that polymorpha and longipes are excluded. I might be misreading the situation, but it seems most of the specimens in the complex are actually described as Xylaria hypoxylon and that it needs further study to define the species more clearly, i.e. X. hypoxylon as currently understood is probably a species complex including yet to be described species. The iNaturalist forum discussion suggests the work was preliminary in 2022, but I don't see a reference for a "resolution in 2024". Something on the complex in the taxonomy section of X. hypoxylon seems the appropriate approach. — Jts1882 | talk16:15, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240710161500","author":"Jts1882","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Jts1882-20240710161500-Esculenta-20240710153100","replies":[]}}-->
@Un assiolo: To clarify, a species complex is a separate rank from a species, and could have it's own article (and many do already, see Category:Species groups). However this draft is not really distinguishing between Xylaria hypoxylon the species and the Xylaria hypoxylon species complex, nor is it especially long. I agree with Esculenta that it should be 'merged'. awkwafaba (📥) 16:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240710161600","author":"Awkwafaba","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Awkwafaba-20240710161600-Un_assiolo-20240710142400","replies":[]}}-->
There seems to be some controversy going on over at Talk:Stachybotrys chartarum. I'm really not familiar with this topic; however, the article is quite popular and seems to need some work. It seems like this page may be particularly valuable to WP:FRINGE. I just wanted to put this on people's radar, as I know these controversial topics can cause some issues with Wikipedia pages. (Also commented on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine) CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 06:07, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240802060700","author":"CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath-20240802060700-Stachybotrys_chartarum","replies":[]}}-->
This is a high importance article in the project, so I thought I would notify the project that I have removed a reasonably important paragraph. See Talk:Saprotrophic_nutrition#Nitrogen_and_cofactors for my full reasoning.
I would appreciate it if there is anyone with reasonably basic saprotroph knowledge to rewrite the paragraph.
Thanks :) AllPurposeScientistblah17:39, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240830173900","author":"AllPurposeScientist","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-AllPurposeScientist-20240830173900-Saprotrophic_nutrition","replies":[]}}-->
This species is redirected to Clavaria sulcata. But the text of that page says they have been differentiated and are not the same. This is problematic. A side issue, are both known as flame fungus? FloridaArmy (talk) 16:49, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240913164900","author":"FloridaArmy","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-FloridaArmy-20240913164900-Clavaria_miniata","replies":["c-Esculenta-20240913174700-FloridaArmy-20240913164900"]}}-->
I updated the synonymy in the article and it seems like Clavaria miniata is still acknowledged as a synonym by Index Fungorum. I adjusted the text to soften Reid's suggestion of non-synonymy, as this was written in the days when some mycologists thought ellipsoid spores vs. spherical spores was enough to differentiate a new genus. I also softened the Wiki-voice on the "common name" of this fungus, as the authority of the single cited source is too weak to say this definitively. Esculenta (talk) 17:47, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240913174700","author":"Esculenta","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Esculenta-20240913174700-FloridaArmy-20240913164900","replies":[]}}-->
