Talk:Geopyxis carbonaria/GA1

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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 20:10, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Happy to offer a review. Josh Milburn (talk) 20:10, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

• "The fungus has a temperate North Hemisphere distribution." I think Northern Hemisphere is more typical, but how about something like "The fungus is distributed throughout many temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere."

• Sure, changed. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• The prose in the taxonomy section is a little choppy- not bad, but perhaps you could try to smooth it out a little (also, you link "taxonomic" twice)

• Copyedited this section. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• I trust this is something you'll be in a better position to know than me- does "trama" actually refer to the flesh of this species, or is the term specific to basidiocarps? Our article on trama seems to suggest the latter

• That is correct, trama refers to the tramal plates (i.e. gills). Someday I (or someone) need to move trama (mycology) to context and make the article less basidiomycete-centric. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• "apothecium" is undefined jargon

• Replaced with fruitbody. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• "which grows in similar habitats" Similar to what? The habitats you were just discussing of the habitats of Geopyxis carbonaria?

• Fixed. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• What is "a moderate pathogen"?

• Hopefully it's clear now. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• "The formation of a rudimentary Hartig net, characteristic of mycorrhizal fungi, suggesting that it might be capable of forming mutualistic relationships under the right conditions." This sentence doesn't quite work- you're missing a word or two

• Fixed. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• "up to 700–100 fruitbodies" I assume this is a typo?

• Yes, fixed. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• You're missing a location on your Evenson source

• Added. Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Sources and images all seem appropriate. Shame we don't have an article/category for the burnt ground fungi. The lead seems a little short, but for such a simple species, that's probably not surprising. I couldn't actually find it in my better field guides (I didn't bother checking the poor ones!) so I'm guessing that it's pretty unusual in the UK; you don't specifically mention the UK in the article, so that's not an issue. Josh Milburn (talk) 20:54, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

I couldn't find much detailed distribution info, so the article reflects that. I fattened the lead a bit for good measure. We will soon have both an article and category for post-fire fungi! Thanks for reviewing, Sasata (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm happy with the changes and have no further issues, so I'm going to go ahead and promote. Nice work, as ever. Josh Milburn (talk) 22:18, 27 August 2015 (UTC)