![Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Paddys River, ACT - 9 Apr 2026 by SimoneS](https://cdn.naturemapr.org/api/sightings/4726136/images/1?width=300&height=300 "Unverified Cap on a stem; gills below cap [mushrooms or mushroom-like] at Paddys River, ACT - 9 Apr 2026 by SimoneS")
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Discussion
Mike
wrote:
Yesterday
I don't know what characteristics the Herbarium used. I will put together the CoPilot comparisons and see how they compare.
Verbena bonariensis
abread111
wrote:
Yesterday
I think you are right in suggesting that previous ids were guided by what was in the ACT Census then.
I am happy to go with the botanists rather than CoPilot AI and let them decide if these are separate species or synonyms.
Probably some of the sightings on CNM under V. incompata are actually V. bonariensis, but will not be able to be distinguished now.
I am happy to go with the botanists rather than CoPilot AI and let them decide if these are separate species or synonyms.
Probably some of the sightings on CNM under V. incompata are actually V. bonariensis, but will not be able to be distinguished now.
Verbena bonariensis
WendyEM
wrote:
Yesterday
Hednota xiphosema
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=362937
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?taxon_id=1546673
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=362937
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?taxon_id=1546673
Hednota acontophora
Mike
wrote:
Yesterday
I think my early sightings of Verbena were always identified to V. incompta even if I had suggested V. bonariensis. Probably this was guided by the ACT Plant Census (only incompta) though the ACT list of Naturalised Alien plants gives (Verbena bonariensis (syn. Verbena incompta)). After a long discussion with CoPilot AI, I am told corolla tube length is not a suitable identifying feature.
Verbena bonariensis
Significant sightings
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- Sminthopsis murina at Hackett, ACT
- Corunastylis cornuta at Captains Flat, NSW
- Corunastylis clivicola at Captains Flat, NSW
- Burhinus grallarius
- Appias paulina at Uriarra Village, ACT
- Cenchrus longispinus at Macgregor, ACT
- Keyacris scurra at Wallaroo, NSW
- Asparagus virgatus at Mawson, ACT
- Cenchrus longispinus at Kenny, ACT
- Keyacris scurra at Bendoura, NSW
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- Rhopalosiphum maidis at Higgins, ACT
- Burhinus grallarius at Googong, NSW
- Graphium eurypylus at Karabar, NSW
- Calyptomyrmex beccarii at Crowther, NSW
- Burhinus grallarius at Bonython, ACT
- Carpophagus banksiae at Oallen, NSW
- Parapylus bicinctus at Tolbar, NSW
- Melanodryas cucullata cucullata at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
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