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Sighting 4681314

Dura (genus)

Babinda, QLD

Dura (genus) at Babinda, QLD - 23 Oct 2008 09:07 PM
Dura (genus) at Babinda, QLD - 23 Oct 2008 09:07 PM
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Identification history

Dura (genus) 9 Jul 2025 WendyEM
Dura (genus) 9 Jul 2025 JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
Unverified 4 Jul 2025 PJH123

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Dura marginepunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1904) Not in AFD, in BOLD https://portal.boldsystems.org/result?query=%22Dura%20marginepunctata%22[tax]

5 comments

ibaird wrote:
   4 Jul 2025
Dura niveus looks very similar.
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/a9511e6a-96b9-4fd0-a0fd-f041f9ce0dc6#gallery
The Dura (genus) is recognozed by the AFD as is also D. niveus.
ibaird wrote:
   4 Jul 2025
I wanted to suggest Dura (genus) but inexplicably the system replaces my suggestion with Aira (genus)!
WendyEM wrote:
   9 Jul 2025
It is till doing it today. Have you asked "management" or plant/monocot moderators bout this? Aira is a genus of grass (Poaceae) called Hairgrass. ALA does not list Dura as a synonym for Aira as far as I can see. There are however a couple of moncots that have dura as a species - Sclerochloa dura (Hardgrass) is introduced grass found in Australia used for turf also - Lomandra multiflora subsp. dura - Stiff Iron-grass whose natural S.A. community is critically endangered.
OR this has nothing to do with it.
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
   9 Jul 2025
With a bit of working around,
I have added: Dura (genus) to NatureMapr's taxonomy.

(I have not yet worked out what the interaction was with grasses genus Aira .)
WendyEM wrote:
   9 Jul 2025
Thanks for sorting this out Jason.

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