Talk:Amanita gemmata

Stirps
Until Nov. 1st 2012, the Taxonomy & Phylogeny section contained the sentence "Tulloss places the species in a stirps (an informal ranking above species level) with A. russuloides and A. viscidolutea.", which is correct. Then "above" was changed to "below" with the comment "strips is below species level", and now the sentence does not make sense. The stirps is here evidently a group of related species within the genus including A. gemmata, A. russuloides and A. viscidolutea, and so it is above the species level. Web site, associated with Tuloss, makes it clear that the stirpes are groups of species (though other Amanita species are put in them, not gemmata). In mycology a stirps is normally above species level, though I don't say the term can never be used to mean a group below species level. I hope it is OK if I correct this error. Strobilomyces (talk) 15:47, 12 April 2015 (UTC)