Talk:Dissoderma odoratum/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Esculenta (talk · contribs) 15:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I'll review this. Comments forthcoming in a few days. Esculenta (talk) 15:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I'm happy to improve the page according to your suggestions in hopes of bringing this article to the required standard. Looking forward to hearing from you! NotAGenious (talk) 17:49, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok here are my initial thoughts about the article. I think it has a way to go before reaching all of the GA criteria, but I'm happy to work with you to improve this.

Lead

• "Dissoderma odoratum is a species of fungi" fungus is singular, fungi is plural (fix later too, "The host species is a mycorrhizal fungi")
• "The fungus parasites in the sporocarps" -> "The fungus parasitizes the sporocarps"
• "but has also been found from the United States." -> "found in" or "recorded from"
• the lead is quite short and does not currently adequately summarize the contents of the article, but lets come back to this later, as there may be more article to summarise
• image caption: "A specimen from Rovaniemi, Finland" should be "specimens" or "A collection"

Description

• "The sporocarps of D. odoratum are small and short-legged." short-legged is an amusing translation … probably stipe was what was meant
• "on the sporocarps of the Hebeloma mesophaeum."
• "upper part of the foot" foot->stipe (fix the later foot too)
• link lilac; lamellae; spore dust; amyloid; micrometer; ellipsoid; link spore to basidiospore; Scale (zoology) is not an appropriate link for scales here
• "The stipe is whither than the pileus." ?
• "6,5–9,5 micrometers" decimals rather than commas
• style guides recommend to avoid starting a paragraph or sentence with an abbreviation (e.g. D. odoratum)
• how many spores are in the basidia? Sources seems to differ on this point.
• there are many details about the mushroom morphology that have been omitted and the current description is somewhat sparse compared to other GA-level articles on mushroom-forming fungi. Check out this source for more morphological details that might be included. Or the Halama 2016 paper.
• how does D. odoratum differ from the similar species D. pearsonii and D. paradoxa?
• this source mentions that the chlamydospores occur on sclerotial bulbs, which are not mentioned in the article. Bas riffs on the potential function of the chlamydospores in his 1965 publication, which seems to align with what the article suggests their function might be. Has this not been figured out in the intervening 60 years? Redhead 1994 has more discussion on this that might be informative.
• any information on the development of the mushroom? (e.g. from the Reijders 1952 publication, Meded. Nederl. mycol. Ver. 30: 1-116.)
• image caption: "The sporocarps grown on top of a malformation consisting of a dark-colored, swollen model." suggest "Sporocarps of D. odoratum are seen here growing out of the fruiting body of a swollen, malformed host.

Habitat

• it's usual to group "Habitat and distribution" together in fungus articles, and would suggest to do the same here
• link host
• "more vulnerable to parasitism in human-made environment." -> environments
• "It is unclear how this is possible, as the fungus is known to be parasitic only on spores" this last part of the statement can't be correct, please check the source

Ecology

• "It is not known whether the fungus also grow" -> grows
• some sources discuss the irregular periodicity of the fungus, where sightings are followed by many intervening non-fruiting years; this non-fruiting period has been recorded to vary in length from 5-12 years in The Netherlands. This should be mentioned in the article. The source is "de Vries G. A. 1985. Squamanita odorata en Geastrum pectinatum, twee zeldzame fungi in de bossen tussen Baarn en Hilversum. Coolia 28(3): 53–55.", which is available for viewing here, with earlier sources mentioning this "Daams J. 1966. Squamanita odorata I. Coolia 12(3–5): 14" and "Bas C. 1966. Squamanita odorata II. Coolia 12(3–5): 14–17.", both of which are here.
• Saar et al. 2022 says that the fruiting season in Europe is from July to November

Distribution

• "In the 2020s, studies have been published" -> were published
• ".. environmental samples have been published."
• link Washington; probably want to link/mention environmental DNA, assuming that's the basis for saying that the species might occur in Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Russia
• Wasser 1993 suggests that the species is probably also going to be found in Baltic States, CIS States and Ukraine

Endangerment

• Typically, this section is called "Conservation", going by the example of the plant article template, which WP:Fungi more or less follows.
• not sure the table is needed; if it were converted to text it could fill out this very short section. At the very least, the table headers should be in English.

Taxonomy

• I think it's a good idea to include a citation to Cool's original publication: Cool C. 1918. "Lepiota odorata n. sp." Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Mycologische Vereniging 9: 47–52.
• Apparently Morten Lange named a form bispora in 1953 that he found in Denmark (citation given in Halama 2016), but it is not considered taxonomically independent (said Bas in 1965)
• There's some more details about Cool's original discovery here that could add some color to the taxonomy section (e.g., that Cool was the Netherlands Mycological Society curator, that she "caused a sensation among the Dutch mycologists" because even the most prominent Dutch mycologists weren't aware of the fungus)
• this same source also mentions that the combination Squamanita odorata was attributed to Imbach, but he did not accept the name, and did not validly publish it. Bas claims credit for the generic transfer to Squamanita.
• Species Fungorum lists another synonym not given in the article: Armillaria odorata (Cool) Zerova (1979)
• might be good to mention that a lectotype for this species was selected by Bas in 1965, and that it later could not be found (according to Saar et al. 2022)
• missing categories: Parasitic fungi; Fungi of Europe; Fungi of the United States

Esculenta (talk) 18:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

No response from the nominator, who has otherwise been active on WP. Perhaps these suggestions will be useful for someone later. Closing this review due to inactivity. Esculenta (talk) 23:55, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh right, sorry. I'll look into this and finish my edits in 2-3 days. NotAGenious (talk) 07:30, 23 March 2024 (UTC)