Flag for Taxon: bush rice grass (Microlaena avenacea)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bouteloua | bush rice grass (Microlaena avenacea) |
overconfident computer vision suggestion |
Oct. 24, 2019 17:28:53 +0000 | bouteloua |
most IDs corrected; now in maintenance mode -- please subscribe to the taxon to help |
Comments
@lloyd_esler @johnvandenhoeven @mark_smale @tsn @ddennism
Can you help out with reidentifying these, even if it's just to "Poaceae" or "Plantae? The computer vision/automated image recognition feature seems to suggest Microlaena avenacea for any number of grasses, sedges, and other monocots.
I'm happy that all 14 are Microlaena avenacea
Are you looking at the link above though? There are around 200 misidentified observations, some of which aren't even grasses
Ah. 172 identifications of Microlaena avenacea. I've had a look through and can't find any odd ones
I too have looked through, and they all look like grasses or sedges to me. I don't know grasses or sedges well enough to say that these are not Microlaena avenacea. Many of them appear to be cultivated, and it seems plausible that a grass from NZ could appear in cultivation in many other parts of the world. I will leave it to those who are experts on grasses and sedges to sort these out.
Yes I see now. A lot of the non-NZ ones aren't correct but I'm not well up enough with non-NZ plants to be much help
Yes, but even backing up to "grass" or reidentifying as broad as "Cyperaceae" or "monocots" is supremely helpful if you can.
For your amusement, if one searches Google Images for "Bush Rice Grass" (in an attempt to familiarize oneself with what this species really looks like), some of the results show a former President and a former Secretary of State walking together across a lawn... :-)
I have gone through the set more carefully now, and have moved all that I could up to a higher level ID. Within the US, quite a few turned out to be Hemerocallis or Narcissus or Iris or Liriope or Yucca. A couple of them didn't move, despite my ID, presumably because the observer retained control of the ID. I hope that the algorithm can now be re-trained, to reduce future mistakes.
haha I see the one photo of Bush & Rice
wow, thanks for all your work correcting these! I'm going to subscribe to the taxon to help keep an eye on it
just fixed another dozen, thankfully slowing down due to the updates to computer vision suggestions
Link to identify outside of New Zealand: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&geoprivacy=open,obscured&place_id=any¬_in_place=6803&quality_grade=casual,research,needs_id&taxon_id=403908