Taxonomic Merge 69227 (Committed on 2022-01-18)

Synonymy according to POWO, and Tropicos for names not included in POWO.

POWO (Citation)
Added by jameskm on January 13, 2020 07:28 PM | Committed by andreas_berger on January 18, 2022
merged into

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Is there a reason why this merge hasn't been committed yet?

Posted by pastabaum about 3 years ago

There was some concern when I drafted it: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/326555

Posted by jameskm about 3 years ago

Ok, looks like it isn't that clear, thanks!

Posted by pastabaum about 3 years ago

Thanks for the comment and the requests I have received to commit the drafted change. All of the names clearly refer to the same taxon, and following POWO I have committed the change to consolidate the taxonomy used here with POWO which accepts the taxon at the specific level as Cerastium holosteoides. This is in accordance with some (e.g. Flora of Austria, Czech Flora, Flora of Germany etc.) but not all regional floras (British Flora) and I hope the change is OK for the community here.

Posted by andreas_berger about 2 years ago

added taxon framework

Posted by epsilon about 2 years ago

This is an ongoing debate between POWO and some countries like Russia, Sweden, Norway, Finland and UK. And of course not only with Cerastium but also with many other genera. There are lots of sub-taxa that are commonly used in guide books, threatened species evaluations, national databases and national vascular plant research.

But, nothing new under the sun.

Posted by bodhiheera about 2 years ago

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