Sherrin-ALA
commented
1 year ago As I understand the above - both Phragmites vallatorius and Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud. var. karka should be redirected to Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud.
In dev - Phragmites vallatorius redirects Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud., but Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud. var. karka doesn't as in the APC taxon file, it's listed as an excluded name but references itself as the accepted name with its parent name as Poaceae (the same family as Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud.
a) Phragmites vallatorius is a nom illeg (basically an illegal name). It was previously designated as such before 2021 but was re listed as nom illegal by APC 2021 and assigned to P. karka. Here is the weird bit. Our instance in prod of Phragmites vallatorius shows it as nom illegal (https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https:/id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2888352#namesbut) still shows it as the preferred name. I’ve checked but in dev it is also showing as accepted, even though APC aren’t accepting it (noting that it is a pre 2021 issue).
b) The second bit might be slightly less odd but still an error. In APC, Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud. var. karka is an excluded name but Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud. is an accepted name under APC https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/84600/api/apni-format as well as the name to which P. vallatorius has been referred. Again, this happened in 2021, but before then there was still a problem. P. karka was a valid taxon even without APC and P. vallatorius was never a valid taxa. I think when we are importing the names, the system is conflating the two instances of P. karka and then referring everything to P. vallatorius….