Flag for Taxon: Silver beard grass (Bothriochloa laguroides)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rynaturalist | Silver beard grass (Bothriochloa laguroides) |
Needs range-based taxon swap to Bothriochloa torreyana |
Jul. 13, 2023 19:09:26 +0000 | kevinfaccenda |
swap committed |
Comments
split drafted and atlases created. Does anybody want to double check the atlases? I intentionally excluded mexico from the B. torreyana map to avoid pushing all those observations to genus level during the split. Those should be manually reviewed.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/128187
https://www.inaturalist.org/atlases/88054
https://www.inaturalist.org/atlases/88055
At my extremely amateur level, this all looks and sounds good to me. Someone smarter than me needs to double check the atlases.
This taxonomic correction should go a whole lot smoother than the Bushy Bluestem / Maritime Bluestem chaos.
Thank you for your work on this.
Mine were all swapped 5 months ago. Thanks for this information and the links.
Thank you for addressing this @kevinfaccenda, I appreciate it!
I agree with Linda Jo, this needs to be done, but I am not qualified to verify the atlases.
If we are going to keep Bothriochloa laguroides and Bothriochloa torreyana as separate species on iNaturalist, all current observations north of Texas should be swapped to Bothriochloa torreyana. Before the split, when B. torreyana used to be B. laguroides torreyana, almost nobody ID'd to subspecies and as a result nearly all observations in the United States are erroneously labelled B. laguroides.
As @sambiology and @lisa281 pointed out in another flag, the range of B. laguroides is south of Texas (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35197-2). So if all observations of B. laguroides north of Mexico could be swapped to B. torreyana that should solve things nicely.