Genus & family checklist additions here

thanks Terry, it is fine now, I have added the Spikey Wijky Moss to PlantFiles

Ken

Thanks! I'm glad it worked this time ;o)

I have finished adding all my moss pictures, now just the liverworts to complete 7 years of adding all my old plant photos to PlantFiles.

Could you please add the following Liverwort Genera and where necessary families to the approved list::

Chiloscyphus in the Geocalycaceae
Barbilophozia in the Jungermanniaceae
Lepidozia in the Lepidoziaceae
Trichocolea in the Trichocoleaceae
Metzgeria in the Metzgeriaceae
Frullania in the Frullania clavata
Porella in the Porellaceae

Thank you

Ken

Hi ken,

All have been added. The Frullania genus seems to have some taxonomy questions - is it in the Jubulaceae family, or its own? (We don't have Frullaniaceae as a valid family name in the checklist.)

Sorry Terry, that was a typo. I entered the full name of the species instead of the family. I agree that Frullania is in the Jubulaceae.

Ken

No problem; I just wanted to make sure we didn't need to add another family there. If you need any more assistance, please let me know!

Why is Fabaceae not included as a family? I can understand the need to use subfamilies when families are large, but shouldn't there at least be an informational page that gets displayed if Fabaceae is entered?

Thanks for the reply and link to the thread. Since I am a computer programmer, I naturally automatically think of alternatives. One obvious alternative is to add an edit check to the family field, and if Fabaceae is entered, provide a popup from which to choose the appropriate subfamily.

Another obvious suggestion would be to not prompt for a family when a subfamily is sometimes called for. This can be fixed with a simple label change. It never dawned on me to enter Papilionidae because I was being asked to enter a family name. I couldn't believe it when the system would accept neither Fabaceae nor Leguminosae, the only two family names I knew of. Had the label suggested I could have entered a subfamily name, that would have been helpful.

Finally, in most cases, the genus is already in the system. The user should not be required to enter a family name if it's already known. If it is left blank, the system should look it up from its store of knowledge. The user can then confirm it or select from alternatives in the unlikely event there are multiple possibilities.

Could you please add the genus Balsamocitrus. It is in the Rutaceae family. Thanks

I added Balsamocitrus and I also added Afraegle since they seem to be synonyms: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?1643

Could you please add the moss genus:

Bryoerythrophyllum in the family: Pottiaceae
to the approved list,

Ken

All done!

Would you please add the genus Saposhnikovia under the family Apiaceae?

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?402607

Saposhnikovia has been added.

Joan beat me to it ;o)

Just now tried it, it wont come up. No hurry, I'm going to bed.

Hmmm...let me check

The genus is added to the accepted list correctly, and I was able to add a test entry (that I also deleted). Please try again.

Guess I'm doing something wrong. I enter Saposhnikovia in genus in the search page, hit enter and get "Do you mean.." with nothing remotely similar offered. How do I add the firsr species under a newly added genus?

We just added the genus to the accepted list, so that means no Saposhnikovia entries exist in PlantFiles yet. Once there are some entries created, then the search will bring them up.

To add a plant, click on the 'Add A Plant' link underneath the tabs in the PlantFiles environment. Fill in the common name, family, genus and species field (cultivar also if there is one) and click on submit. Then you can go back to the entry and finish filling in the details, add a photo and comment if you wish.

Try that and let us know if you have any further problems.

Sorry Joan, I was thinking I had to be within the genus to add. Don't know why, as I've done this before. Guess I'm getting old. ;-(

No problem. Let us know if you run into any snags.

I have just encountered a Liverwort in a new Genus and family.

Could you please authorise the genus Asterella in the Family Aytoniaceae,

thanks,

Ken

I added the Asterella to the genus checklist and confirmed that Aytoniaceae was already among the validated family names.

Sorry if this is not right spot for this posting. Just joined DG. Is there a database that allows me to choose characteristics such as sun needed, height, color, etc. and then have perenials spit out?

Steve

Could you please add the genus Phrynium and Plagiostachys to the list of accepted names. Thank you.


This message was edited Aug 8, 2010 4:18 PM

Phrynium and Plagiostachys have been added to the checklist!

Could you also add the families Flagellariaceae and Hanguanaceae and genera Flagellaria and Hanguana? Thanks again.

This message was edited Aug 10, 2010 4:10 PM

Would you add the family Joinvilleaceae and genus Joinvillea as well.

I added Flagellaria, Hanguana and Joinvillea.to the genus checklist.

I also added Flagellariaceae to the family checklist (the other two were already present.)

Terry, when I tried to add my plant from the genus Joinvillea it still said it is not on the checklist. Could you check that out for me. Thanks.

Sorry about that - please try again and see if it works!

Thanks, it worked fine now.

Would you add Rhodocoma, Asplundia, and Scirpodendron to the genus checklist please.



This message was edited Aug 12, 2010 10:22 PM

Could you add Rhuacophila to the genus checklist please.

Thanks for all the additions.