A very interesting comment, something we always need to bear in mind with any AI.
They say they need us to alert them of errors.
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I wonder how long it will take them to delete the one I alerted them to; it’s still there today.
I thought to share this on the forum as “Know Your Botanist” but found this thread and am tagging along.
Lobelia quadrisepala (R.D.Good) E.Wimm Data Deficient - Taxonomically Problematic (Threatened Species Programme | SANBI Red List of South African Plants)
So checked the synonym at CasaBio - makes sense There aren’t any identifications of Lobelia dodiana.
But this lead me to
Etymology of Lobelia:
For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.|
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Etymology of dodiana:
Named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod (1861-1948), a british soldier and botanist. He bequeathed his herbarium of several thousand specimens to the British Museum.|
|Scientific name: |Lobelia dodiana E. Wimm.|
I’m still checking so shall post this later - hope this works
M
Alerted to this forum post ( thanks M) I checked again the gbif entry for a Swiss Geranium argenteum;
It’s stiil there.
I hadn’t noticed before that the poster, Elie Rebertez, had her/his ‘human observation’ verified by PlantNet.
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Oh well.