Hello everyone! Lately I’ve been investing some of my free time cleaning up “needs ID” observations in Portugal. If I am at home I usually go for groups in which I have enough knowledge to get the observation to the species/genus level, because at home I can fully dedicate my attention to the proce…

Here is something that an iNaturalist member put in the forum. Sorry, I was so excited to get it, I neglected to get their name, but, hopefully, someone may inform us after I post this. Ascomycetes & Basidiomycetes So this is the most basic split you’re going to find below fungi. Ascomycetes is r…

For ‘easy’ clicks try Kingdom Disagreement . May be homonyms or typos. I do Africa - adjust the location to suit

Maybe I’ll find more time at some point to keep plugging away at that. Or hell, just make some journal entries.

We’d love that :heart: I bookmarked those posts so I can go back at them when I have time to get my fungi observation out of their kingdom status. It is best explanation I’ve ever gotten on the different families and geni of fungi and explained so much to me on how to better break down ID’ing to mo…

I’ve been identifying observations stuck at phylum Arthropoda , which is pretty fun. One can often get to a finer ID just by counting legs. 6 legs = hexapoda, and most likely insecta. a lot of beetle and other larvae get identified as myriapods, it’s satisfying to correct those. 8 legs = arachn…

My terrible system for plants (there are a lot of plants in the picture?: “review” and move on) It is a bit complex: vascular. It has cones: gymnosperm. It has flowers: angiosperm. You can count petals or sepals? x3= monocots, x4/x5: dicots. It looks like a daisy or a dandelion = asteraceae. It…

For flowering plants, you can usually get monocot vs. dicot by looking at leaves. Monocots have parallel veins, but dicots have branched veins. I would think “Gymnosperms” would usually be ID’s to “conifers” as the exceptions are relatively few like Gingko and some obscure plants like Welwitschia t…

[image] gordonh: Monocots have parallel veins, but dicots have branched veins. With the caveat that some genera of Araceae have broad leaves with branched veins.

jeanphilippeb’s “Unknown” projects are fun to go through. They are unknown but slightly sorted by CV - so for example this is the “arthropod” project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/unknown-arthropoda Some of the things there aren’t arthropods, because the CV can be confused by plants that l…

Good global criteria when identifying unknowns

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fseichter November 30, 2023, 5:50pm 3

Source is lothlin in https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/laymans-guide-to-fungus-orders-families/46181/3

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Good global criteria when identifying unknowns

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