Flag for Taxon: Scarlet Cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fungee | Scarlet Cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea) |
there are like 150 observations of this in the Eastern US, where it has never been reported. |
Mar. 6, 2021 01:38:22 +0000 | cooperj |
noting to resolve |
Comments
Not much we (curators) can do about the CV suggestions, although there has been a recent update to the interface that should reduce the problem. You need to tell people they can't id without microscopy and re-identify to genus. I'd suggest creating a journal entry indicating the problem and what people need to do, then you can paste a URL to every ident.
And add an entry to the dodgy CV list ...
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/computer-vision-clean-up-wiki/7281
I should add that we could do an atlas split and push everything east-coast back to genus. In my opinion that approach doesn't help much. People just carry on making the same errors. There needs to be a consistent comment against each id until people 'get it'. Splits are a bit too 'silent' to get the message across . That's my view anyway.
Thanks a lot for your advice. In the future I'll create journal entries. My own journal, I take it?
yes. your own journal.
@johnplischke, @alan_rockefeller, can you contribute here regarding identification/distribution of these species?
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/sarcoscypha_coccinea.html
Stephen Russell found over 30 species / clades of Scutellinia in Indiana via ITS sequencing, it would be interesting to see how the micromorphology corresponds to the phylogenetic species.
Flag not about curation - resolve?
S. coccinea is a west coast or European species, please refrain from suggesting it in Eastern North America as we have two other applicable species that require microscopy to discern, Sarcoscypha austriaca (very common) with intertwined, curly hairs on the underside and multi-guttulate but sometimes biguttulate often conidiogenic spores and S. dudleyi (rare) with curved on the underside and biguttulate non-germinative spores.