i have noticed increasing xylaria observations of taxons that are not being shown as taxons even though there are multiple related observations of the species. it is getting increasingly conserning. here are some examples of note… its making it hard to ID xylaria though i am probably the only person that subscribes to that taxon…
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111096707
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111056380
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110689733
There are without a doubt many species of Xylaria that are undescribed. Furthermore there aren’t that many good resources for identification of Xylaria to species that aren’t the usual X. longipes, X. polymorpha, etc. and a number of those are realistically not that species. I’m not sure how familiar you are with fungal taxonomy, but only something like 5-6% of the estimated 2.2 - 3.8 million fungal species have been described, so not having names (or identification resources) for some species is quite common.
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Are these undescribed species, or described species not in the iNat taxonomy?
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both…
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If there are described and named taxa missing from iNat, please flag Xylaria for curation and request the names be added.
iNat does not create taxa for undescribed/unnamed taxa, but you could use a tag, an observation field, or a project to keep track of those.
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