Flag for Taxon: Euthamia hirtipes
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| marisaszubryt | wildlander | Euthamia hirtipes |
The work used to split E. hirtipes into E. floribunda and E. weakleyi by Nesom were neither peer-reviewed nor based on morphometrics/phylogenetics |
Oct. 13, 2022 00:08:01 +0000 | Not Resolved |
Comments
I agree that our reference, POWO still treats Euthamia hirtipes as an active taxon https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:288220-2
and that we shouldn't curate in a direction away from POWO as
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/115445
does, unless the deviation is first discussed in a flag.
@glsasser did you raise this in a flag before committing the swap? If so, can you link to it here?
also looping in @whiteoak in case this is personally relevant
I didn't raise a flag, but will try that next time. Asked some users personally and drafted the swap for a few days in case anyone had any disagreements, then committed. If @marisaszubryt is unsure on these, though, I do think it'd be best to wait for newer work before keeping this swap.
This is outside my normal scope of curation, but that paper caught my eye (and a lot of other people's). I'm sure Nesom is on to something, but when you have to begrudgingly publish a follow-up paper with a key because it didn't occur to you that people would want one...well, I think this was a little premature.
Getting sequence data back later this year to work on E. hirtipes s.l. (including what are probably hybrids between E. hirtipes s.s. and E. caroliniana in the northeast portion of its range)