The authorship string is sometimes tricky to parse and it would be useful to share a more structured authorship for names.
Proposal to add 6 more terms, 3 terms for the combination and similarly 3 for the basionym part of the authorship:
scientificName = Abacopteris macrophylla
authorship = (Ching ex Y. X. Lin) S. E. Fawc. & A. R. Sm.
combinationAuthorship = S.E.Fawc. | A.R.Sm.
combinationExAuthorship =
combinationAuthorshipYear =
basionymAuthorship = Y. X. Lin
basionymExAuthorship = Ching
basionymAuthorshipYear =
The authorship string is sometimes tricky to parse and it would be useful to share a more structured authorship for names. Proposal to add 6 more terms, 3 terms for the combination and similarly 3 for the basionym part of the authorship:
See https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/checklistbank/issues/1093#issuecomment-1237308983
The structured authorship terms should concatenate each author by a | or & character.