Take Care When Naming Fungi

The names of living organisms used to convey associations about properties, origin, substrate, host, history, etc. of the organism, a help to memorize the name. (2015), but where sadly I did not have the chance of checking the final text before publication. [...]there is now a genus Bisifusarium, which is supposed to reflect “the two-celled macroconidia characteristically formed by these fungi”, and not a product of Italian cuisine. [...]their name no longer serves as a seal of quality for the underlying research. A great need for new names stems from the molecular discovery of large numbers of novelties, whose baptizing often goes over the mycologists’ head who then seek refuge in awkward derivatives of previously formed names with prefixes such as Pseudo-, Para-, Xeno-, or suffixes like -oides, -opsis, or -ella. The names of living organisms used to convey associations about properties, origin, substrate, host, history, etc. of the organism, a help to memorize the name. (2015), but where sadly I did not have the chance of checking the final text before publication. [...]there is now a genus Bisifusarium, which is supposed to reflect “the two-celled macroconidia characteristically formed by these fungi”, and not a product of Italian cuisine. [...]their name no longer serves as a seal of quality for the underlying research. A great need for new names stems from the molecular discovery of large numbers of novelties, whose baptizing often goes over the mycologists’ head who then seek refuge in awkward derivatives of previously formed names with prefixes such as Pseudo-, Para-, Xeno-, or suffixes like -oides, -opsis, or -ella.