Flag for Taxon: Paintbrushes (Genus Castilleja)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jdmore | Paintbrushes (Genus Castilleja) |
Ready to align with FNA/POWO (see comments) |
Mar. 14, 2020 00:42:24 +0000 | jdmore |
Changes committed |
Comments
@trh_blue
Thanks Jim and Mark - this will be a big improvement.
Wonderful! Thanks for the curation here.
I should mention that Jim has done almost all the hard work on setting up these changes, and I know that California botanists, in particular, may have grumbles about "those damn taxonomists, always changing things around", but our FNA treatment is pretty conservative in many ways and compiled a lot of different regional treatments into one document. There are a few adjustments in accepted taxa and ranks, but many are simply swaps of subspecies for varieties. We were asked by the FNA editorial committee to make a choice, and the move to vars actually required fewer changes over the entire flora, and I favored the work of Noel Holmgren in the genus, as well.
nice job Jim and Mark! The taxon changes look great. I don't think it should be a problem committing them in one go since there's not thousands of observations involved. Thanks for all the hard work!
Thanks everyone for the feedback. All changes have been committed. Comment here if you see anything that we missed. The proposed deviations for Mexican taxa at the bottom of the google doc will be addressed in separate flags.
nice work jdmore!
With thanks to Mark Egger's (@markegger) deep expertise in this genus, we are ready to bring Castilleja in iNaturalist into alignment with the new Flora of North America treatment, which has also been adopted by POWO (with a couple of small glitches).
All the changes are summarized in this annotated google doc.
The draft taxon changes are all ready, but should be committed in the sequence of groups provided in the above google doc.
The largest change is an atlased split involving 220 observations, and most are much smaller, so hopefully it will not be too taxing on the system to commit them all on the same day @loarie?
New Taxon Framework Relationships have been added for everything, except for the inactive output taxa for the splits, where TFRs do not appear to "stick" for very long after adding them.
After allowing a few days for review and comment, I'll go ahead and commit the changes.