Norfolk Island vascular plant curation
Decided to do some clean-up work for iNat obs of vascular plants for Norfolk Island.
First important thing to note here is that, within iNat, Norfolk does not count as part of Australia (place ID = 6744), but rather is its own separate entity (place ID = 7333). One consequence of this is that non-native species that have already been marked as introduced for Australia have to be marked again for Norfolk, so this is one task I'll be doing.
Second task is marking clearly planted/cultivated plants as such.
Third is to try ID observations to species where possible. I'm only noting ones where a 'new' species is added to the island inventory due to my ID (so IDing the 10th observation of a species with 9 observations already is irrelevant here).
Tasks
Marked as introduced
- Rubus grabowskii
- Megathyrsus maximus
- Rumex hypogaeus
- Verbena incompta
- Chenopodiastrum murale
- Cyperus brevifolius
- Geranium gardneri
- Cheilanthes viridis
- Gladiolus dalenii
- Macadamia tetraphylla
- Citrus × taitensis (tentative, may be cultivated)
- Lycium ferocissimum
- Pelargonium × hybridum
- Kalanchoe pinnata
- Hypoestes phyllostachya
- Lepidium bonariense
- Hydrocleys nymphoides
- Gamochaeta americana
- Musa acuminata
- Howea forsteriana
- Phlebodium aureum
- Alpinia zerumbet
- Setaria parviflora
- Stenotaphrum secundatum
- Petroselinum crispum
- Modiola caroliniana
- Juncus articulatus
- Gamochaeta calviceps
- Eriobotrya japonica
- Erigeron karvinskianus
- Gazania rigens
- Saccharum
- Verbascum virgatum
- Arundo donax
- Mentha spicata
- Ammophila arenaria
- Polycarpon tetraphyllum
- Orobanche minor
- Bromus catharticus
- Capsella bursa-pastoris
- Papaver rhoeas
- Hypochaeris radicata
- Trifolium pratense
- Senna septemtrionalis
- Prunus persica
- Nerium oleander
- Yucca aloifolia
- Ranunculus muricatus
- Paspalum mandiocanum
- Bidens alba
- Hakea salicifolia
- Cyperus alternifolius
- Dipogon lignosus
- Phyllanthus tenellus
- Furcraea foetida
- Verbena bonariensis
- Asparagus setaceus
- Verbena litoralis
- Coffea arabica
- Agave americana
- Egeria densa
- Vicia hirsuta
- Datura stramonium
- Melia azedarach
- Foeniculum vulgare
- Nephrolepis cordifolia
- Potentilla indica
- Azolla pinnata
- Sigesbeckia orientalis
- Abutilon grandifolium
- Rivina humilis
- Canna indica
- Metrosideros kermadecensis
- Petunia axillaris
- Argemone subfusiformis
- Salvinia molesta
- Frankenia pulverulenta
- Cyrtomium falcatum
- Portulaca oleracea
- Euphorbia prostrata
- Desmodium incanum
- Salvia coccinea
- Oenothera rosea
- Sporobolus africanus
- Erigeron bonariensis
- Lotus angustissimus
- Ludwigia peploides
- Cyperus polystachyos
- Facelis retusa
- Eleusine indica
- Dimorphotheca ecklonis
- Juncus pallidus
Taxa 'removed' due to marking as captive/cultivated'
- Selenicereus megalanthus
- Grevillea robusta
- Punica granatum
- Acacia (also updated ID to A. spirorbis)
- Ficus macrophylla
'New' species via IDs
- Updated the single Rubus observation to R. grabowskii. Doesn't actually increase the species (leaf) count, but good to get it to species
- Updated Alpinia sp. to Alpinia zerumbet. Ditto Rubus re species count
- Updated Senna sp. to Senna septemtrionalis. Ditto species count
- Updated Prunus sp. to Prunus persica. Ditto
- Updated Yucca sp. Yucca aloifolia. Ditto
- Updated Ranunculus sp. to Ranunculus muricatus. Ditto
- Updated Erigeron to Erigeron bonariensis
- Updated Faboideae to Lotus angustissimus
- Updated Onagraceae to Ludwigia peploides
- Updated Cyperus to Cyperus polystachyos
- Updated Asteraceae to Facelis retusa
'Removed' species via IDs
- Carex dissita --> corrected ID, actually Carex neesiana (which used to be a var. of dissita)
- Vicia tetrasperma --> misidentification of V. hirsuta
- Geranium homeanum --> corrected ID, fairly sure actually G. gardneri
- Lonicera japonica --> downgraded to 'Dicots', unsure what it is (but pretty sure not Lonicera)
- Ammophila arenaria --> Spinifex sericeus instead
Pending
- Eustachys sp. pending naturalised confirmation
- Passiflora pallida pending discussion
- Gloriosa superba pending naturalised confirmation
- Dovyalis caffra pending naturalised confirmation
- Agapanthus praecox pending naturalised confirmation
- Parochetus sp. pending naturalised confirmation
