I see POWO has Pachira quinata listed as a synonym for Bombax ceiba. That is definitely wrong - the two species are nothing alike and occur on different continents. I'm not sure how or why POWO has it listed as a synonym. Is there any way to undo a taxon swap? I don't think there is, and it will be a pain to split them again.

I would be okay with Pochota fendleri in place of Pachira quinata based on this paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44166508

POWO cites this website as its source for listing P. quinata as a synonym of Bombax ceiba: http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co/en/
But the website doesn't actually list that synonym, so it's clearly just a mistake by POWO. The website doesn't even list Bombax ceiba at all, because it doesn't occur in Colombia.

@kitty12 Are you able to undo this taxon swap? If not, I think one of the site staff has that power. Unfortunately, even if we are able to get the old name back, I think we will need to go through each observation in the Americas separately and reidentify with the correct name.

I'll revert this during off-peak hours later today (we're currently under the content freeze due to spring bump/city nature challenge so trying to keep taxon futzing load down)

Thanks @loarie!

Pachira quinata does have to be a synonym of Bombax ceiba because the name it is based on, Bombax quinatum, was just a superfluous replacement name for Bombax ceiba; you can see that Jacquin (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/622943#page/29/mode/1up) cited under the entry for Bombax quinatum the first Bombax species from Linnaeus' Species Plantarum (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13829#page/523/mode/1up), which is Bombax ceiba. All of the names based on Bombax quinatum are therefore synonyms of B. ceiba, though the plant they have been applied to is a different plant, Pochota fendleri as said above. So, the observations should go with P. fendleri, but the names should stay with B. ceiba.