User talk:Fangstarm

April 2020
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Ascomycota, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Plant surfer 18:21, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Ascomycota. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Plant surfer 19:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

This was not a test edit, nor is it vandalism, it is a correction. Penicillium species are not ascomycetes. There's a lot of confusion over the classification of fungi, which are very hard to identify, but ascomycetes are literally named for the sac-like spore structures (asci) and Penicillium is well known to NOT produce these. Pencillium forms basidiospores (club like external spore-bearing structures). Normally they would be categorized as Deuteromycota, or basidiomycota. etc etc ... just look at a photo of the spore structure, clearly not an ascus. And yes, I have 2 degrees in this topic.

Fangstarm (talk) 20:02, 14 April 2020 (UTC)