Primer registro de la familia Morchellaceae (Ascomycota: Pezizales) para Colombia

Pinzón-Osorio, César Augusto; Pinzón-Osorio, Jonás

doi:10.15381/rpb.v24i1.12481

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“…Moreover, even though this species nests in the /Semilibera clade accommodating species with a pileus that is only partially attached to the stipe ("half-free morels"), no information on the sinus of the new species is provided. Other critical features like the acroparaphyses and the hyphoid hairs of the stipe are repeatedly ignored in contemporary descriptions or emendations of taxa (e.g., Yatsiuk et al 2016;Baran and Boroń 2017;Pinzón-Osorio and Pinzón-Osorio 2017;Badshah et al 2018;Du et al 2020), despite being arguably the most informative microanatomical characters in morels (Kuo et al 2012;Loizides et al 2015Loizides et al , 2016Loizides et al , 2021Clowez and Moreau 2018a;Baroni et al 2018). The same is true for the macromorphological profile of many taxa and the process of maturation of their ascocarps, which are rarely reported due to lack of sufficient in situ observations.…”

Section: Cryptic Semicryptic or Pseudocryptic?mentioning

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Has taxonomic vandalism gone too far? A case study, the rise of the pay-to-publish model and the pitfalls of Morchella systematics

Loizides¹,

Alvarado²,

Moreau

et al. 2022

Mycol Progress

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The genus Morchella has gone through turbulent taxonomic treatments. Although significant progress in Morchella systematics has been achieved in the past decade, several problems remain unresolved and taxonomy in the genus is still in flux. In late 2019, a paper published in the open-access journal Scientific Reports raised serious concerns about the taxonomic stability of the genus, but also about the future of academic publishing. The paper, entitled "High diversity of Morchella and a novel lineage of the esculenta clade from the north Qinling Mountains revealed by GCPSR-based study" by Phanpadith and colleagues, suffered from gross methodological errors, included false results and artifactual phylogenies, had misapplied citations throughout, and proposed a new species name invalidly. Although the paper was eventually retracted by Scientific Reports in 2021, the fact that such an overtly flawed and scientifically unsound paper was published in a high-ranked Q1 journal raises alarming questions about quality controls and safekeeping procedures in scholarly publishing. Using this paper as a case study, we provide a critical review on the pitfalls of Morchella systematics followed by a series of recommendations for the delimitation of species, description of taxa, and ultimately for a sustainable taxonomy in Morchella. Problems and loopholes in the academic publishing system are also identified and discussed, and additional quality controls in the pre-and post-publication stages are proposed.

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