Observations incorrectly marked as introduced in Central America

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URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180275168

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Anthurium observations are showing up as introduced species in ranges where I believe they are native.

The issue isn’t with the observations, it’s with the location checklist. If you go to this page: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/puntarenas#q=anthurium , then there is an option to edit the establishment field. When I’ve tried it, it hasn’t worked, but there are probably several reasons why that is true…

I have corrected that.

As a short followup, any user can edit establishment means. See
https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000176171-how-to-add-or-edit-establishment-means-in-inaturalist
for instructions.

If someone isn’t confident taking this on themselves, they can flag the taxon on iNaturalist.org and explain the issue. Curators there can address.

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