Talk:Calvatia sculpta
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GA Review[edit]
- This review is transcluded from Talk:Calvatia sculpta/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Ucucha 05:44, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
You've been into odd-looking fungi lately, it seems. This one merits a somewhat longer lead.
- So because it looked like a species of Calvatia which is now placed in Lycoperdon, it was transferred from Lycoperdon to Calvatia?
- "In age, the peridium sloughs off and exposes a brownish spore mass. The interior of the puffball, the gleba, is firm and yellowish-white when young, but gradually becomes powdery and deep olive-brown as it matures."—please cite
- Don't you usually have "Similar species" as a subsection of "Description"?
- You compare it with C. subcretacea, but that (according to this article) is a synonym of C. arctica.
- A few points from the Baseia and Calonge (2008) paper: it is sometimes considered uncommon, spore diameter may be up to 9.5 micrometer, perhaps mention the various explanations (vicariance, human introduction, cryptic species) they give to account for the Brazilian distribution.
- Two old papers with esoteric-sounding but perhaps useful information:
- Title: TORUS-SHAPED STRUCTURES IN HYPHAE OF CALVATIA-SCULPTA
- Author(s): ROSE, JM; COUSE, NL
- Source: TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume: 79 Issue: AUG Pages: 172-174 Published: 1982
- Title: INDUCTION OF MYCELIAL STRANDS IN CALVATIA-SCULPTA
- Author(s): BELLOTTI, RA; COUSE, NL
- Source: TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume: 74 Issue: FEB Pages: 19-25 Published: 1980
Ucucha 05:44, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for all the fixes. The papers mentioned are certainly not necessary for GA, so I am passing the article now. Ucucha 17:25, 10 July 2010 (UTC)