I am starting to study mosses where I live and I have been using the keys in the Flora of North America. I recently ran into a moss that the FNA said was an Orthotrichum but iNaturalist placed in the Lewinskya genus. That genus is not recognized by the FNA. What source does iNaturalist use for th…

you can look flags on a particular taxon to see if there’s any activity and to ask questions: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/577404/flags . i’m not a moss person at all, but just looking at the taxon details for a random moss (ex. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/159100/taxonomy_details ), it doesn…

Maybe it is a new genus name. A quick search on the web for “Orthotrichum Lewinskya” displays results such as Lewinskya, a New Genus to Accommodate the Phaneroporous and Monoicous Taxa of Orthotrichum (Bryophyta, Orthotrichaceae)

I frequently find that iNat offers new names for mosses that key out to an older synonym using online and printed resources. From interacting with a couple of bryologists, my understanding is that they all still use the old names. E.g. Callicladium imponens is still Hypnum imponens to them, because …

I personally refer to TROPICOS ttps://www.tropicos.org for bryophtye taxonomy, but in cases where it’s ambiguous, don’t hesitate to open a flag!

If I remember correctly, iNat follows this reference, where applicable: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341705162_An_annotated_checklist_of_bryophytes_of_Europe_Macaronesia_and_Cyprus Which works reasonably well for the palearctic (so including north America). There is no database for br…

Oh, also this exists: https://www.bryonames.org/

and is used as reference by iNat

[image] ljazz: the palearctic (so including north America). North America is the Nearctic. Palearctic (Eurasia) + Nearctic (North America) = Holarctic

[image] annkatrinrose: I got the impression that there is quite a bit of inertia to accepting new names in the field, whereas things appear to be changing much more rapidly on iNaturalist. That’s true for vascular plants too, but for some reason the iNat curators and the POWO reference used f…

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