Talk:Marasmius funalis

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sasata (talk • message • contribs • count • logs • email) 15:39, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Comments forthcoming this weekend sometime. Sasata (talk) 15:39, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Comments. Looks pretty close, just a few minor details: Sasata (talk) 16:30, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

• "hair-like stems" True, the stem is hairy, but is it "hair-like"?
  • Changed to "threadlike". J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• link Mycoscience
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• what does the Japanese common name mean?
  • I've asked at WikiProject Japan. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• "but can have small furrows towards the edge." are these furrows arranged radially?
  • They look to be. Added it citing the photograph. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• 0.2 to 0.5 mm (0.0079 to 0.020 in) -> too many sig figs in conversion (same issue later too)
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• "thread-like stem" is it thread-like because of its thinness? Is this analogous to hair-like?
  • Yeah. The source specifically calls it filiform, which is synonymous. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• "It is tough, but can be bent." -> "…bent without breaking"?
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• link amyloid, stain
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• "with cell walls of variable thickness, and are also inamyloid."
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• link granule
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
• perhaps add the binomials of the tree species in parentheses (the average reader may not know to hover over the redlink to see the name)
  • Fair. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughts- I came across this in the source, which I didn't follow-

Pileipellis a cutis of cylindrical cells 2–5µm wide, encrusted with brown-pigmented granules, inamyloid, thin-walled; terminal cells 12–22 [by] 8–13µm, subcylindrical to subclavate, colorless, thin- or slightly thick-walled, with numerous cylindrical to irregularly shaped diverticula 2–7 [by] 1–2µm.

I don't know what is meant by the "terminal cells"; at first, I assumed they were just the last cells in the string of hyphae, but some kind of base (almost reminds me of a sea anenome's body versus its stingers) seems to be being described. I don't know if this means more to you than it did to me. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

As far as I understand it, terminal cells are the younger, actively growing, elongating end cells of hyphae, where nuclear division and (sometimes) clamp connection formation takes place. The base cells you mention I've heard being called "base cells", but I don't recall them singled out too often in micro descriptions. I think everything looks in order for the article, and will promote it to GA. You might want to add a link to Takahashi's site, like I did for the cluster of Mycena articles I wrote that he described. I wonder if he's aware of Wikipedia's rather extensive coverage of his Japanese species? Sasata (talk) 16:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Edible

The box "Mycological Characteristics" seems to vary from article to article. In this article, there is no "Edible" (or not) category or heading ... is it edible? 24.27.31.170 (talk) 01:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC) Eric

Hi Eric- the short answer it, I don't know. Haruki Takahashi didn't mention it in his article, but, really, it's known only from a very small area and produces is very tiny mushrooms, so even if it is technically edible, it's hardly of culinary interest. However, I can't include these details in the article, as that would be original research, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. J Milburn (talk) 11:07, 9 September 2011 (UTC)