Flag for Taxon: Powdery Mildews (Family Erysiphaceae)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
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| sbrobeson | Powdery Mildews (Family Erysiphaceae) |
it has separate anamorph genus listings |
Mar. 27, 2024 00:31:21 +0000 | sbrobeson |
synonymy established |
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with One-Fungus-One Name then names like Pseudoidium (1986, type P. tuckeri) becomes a later synonym of Erysiphe and should be swapped in iNat. If there are 'orphaned' un-combined names remaining in a genus then it has been my practice to place those under the the correct generic name for the type species of the replaced genus. So, all orphaned Pseudoidium names would sit under Erysiphe. Classification follows typification. There are occasions where we know the correct phlyogenetic position of a particular species, and it might be elsewhere, and it is tempting to place it there. In my opinion it could get messy if un-combined names start getting scattered like that. The practice of following the correct generic name is something we adopted for the old Index of Fungi Classification/Dictionary of Fungi, and that is now maintained within IndexFungorum. I'm not sure if Paul Kirk still follows that practice.
okay -- you would recommend going ahead and moving the remaining species out of the "genus" taxon entries for Pseudoidium and for Fibroidium? as in classification following typification for now...
yes
sounds good. I will get working on this today.
This applies for many fungi, but I'm asking it here because I'm familiar with the taxonomy. Apologies if this duplicates any other discussion.
Are the anamorphs well-known enough that they always unambiguously belong to a known and existing teleomorph name? Can these be grafted sensibly without running into any problems?
Pseudoidium species --> Erysiphe
Fibroidium species --> Podosphaera
This is for any combinations that don't yet exist, but where the anamorph names don't really represent separate entities (i.e. makes little sense to identify something as "Genus Pseudoidium" if this actually refers to anamorphic Erysiphe). See the analogous situation in Golovinomyces with Euoidium -- for example Euoidium helichrysi is grafted to the Golovinomyces taxon entry.