Flag for Taxon: Swamp Trigger Plant (Stylidium uliginosum)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| quinkin | Swamp Trigger Plant (Stylidium uliginosum) |
Stylidium uliginosum is misapplied to Stylidium tenerum |
Jul. 3, 2022 20:55:22 +0000 | kai_schablewski |
resolved, see my comment |
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POWO currently has it the other way around: https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Stylidium%20tenerum
Is a deviation justified?
The Australian Plant Name index shows that Stylidium tenerum was applied to this taxon in 1826. So therefore it takes precedence over Stylidium uliginosa. Based on that evidence S. tenerum is valid and S. uliginosa is misapplied. I suggest that POWO is out of date.
Misapplications generally mean that the name of both taxa is valid, and one has wrongly been used to mean the other by some author in some publication. It's important to note that they are not the same as synonyms, and we should not generally have misapplications listed as synonyms in our taxonomy.
As far as I understand, both Stylidium uliginosum and S. tenerum are valid taxa, and the name S. uliginosum has been wrongly used for Australian populations of S. tenerum in all the publications listed above.
I have deleted both Stylidium tenerum and Stylidium tenellum as names for S. uliginosum because the former is a misapplication, not a synonym, and the latter is a taxonomic synonym of the former, not of S. uliginosum.
It is not uncommon for POWO to take some time to catch up to concepts in APNI / APC, but they normally do, eventually.
I have also created a deviation: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_framework_relationships/611890
@quinkin @thebeachcomber can you please run your eye over it? I think it captures the discussion.
@mftasp looks good to me, thanks for that. So are we then manually changing IDs, or atlasing + swapping?
I haven't had a chance today to look into how to do the swap. Given that all Australian specimens will be S. tenerum it might be simpler to Atlas, but I don't know what the situation is outside Oz.
Here is the proposed split: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/111846
POWO now accepts both taxa as valid species and therefore I was able to commit the taxon split.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:826238-1
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:826248-1
Stylidium tenellum R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 571 (1810), nom. illeg. is a synonym of Stylidium tenerum Spreng. according to POWO, but because Stylidium tenellum Sw. ex Willd. is another accepted species I have not added this synonym yet to avoid further confusion.
Stylidium tenerum is now the correct name.
https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/names?product=apni&tree.id=&name=Stylidium+tenerum&inc._scientific=&inc._scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&inc._other=&max=100&display=apni&search=true