Identifying alien grasses of South Africa
If you have an unidentified alien grass, please identify it as Poaceae and add the "Aliens (s Afr)" project to the observation.
You will need to join the project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/alien-s-afr - this is a once off, and after you have joined you will be able to add the project to any of your observations (and even other observer's if they have allowed it).
These alien grasses can be viewed here for inspection:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=113055&project_id=alien-s-afr&taxon_id=47434&verifiable=any
These alien grasses can be viewed here for outstanding identifications:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=113055&order_by=updated_at&verifiable=any&project_id=alien-s-afr&taxon_id=47434
If the grass is identified to species level and a confirmed alien, it will appear in this project for South Africa:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/alien-grasses-of-south-africa
Alien Grass species on the NEMBA Aliens list can be viewed here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=113055&project_id=nemba-alien-species-south-africa&taxon_id=47434&verifiable=any&view=species
To view the distribution of any species on iNaturalist, click this link:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=113055&subview=map&taxon_id=47434&verifiable=any
and add the species (or genus) in the species box to filter that species
(e.g Cenchrus setaceus https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=113055&subview=map&taxon_id=430581&verifiable=any )
If you quickly want some pheonological or other data summary, rather go to the species page:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/430581-Cenchrus-setaceus
and filter by place = South Africa (or southern Africa).
For the phenology to be useful, you may need to annotate the observations for phenology if this has not been done.
((if you wish to view all grasses, not just aliens: please visit: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/grasses-poaceae-of-southern-africa ))
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If you can help with identification of our South African alien grasses, it would be really appreciated.
These grass observations are flagged as alien and need identification.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?place_id=113055&order_by=updated_at&verifiable=any&project_id=alien-s-afr&taxon_id=47434
If you are not familiar with the iNauralist curation tool, please view this 2 minute tutorial: https://vimeo.com/246153496
If any are incorrectly flagged as alien, please ask the observer to remove them from the alien project (alternatively identifying it to species - if you are able to- will remove it from the ID queue)
Note too that you can filter by place to a province, magisterial district, or nature reserve if your interests are more focussed, or by tribe or genus if you prefer to work with specific groups.
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