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World Checklist of Selected Plant Families - Sesleria filifolia Hoppe should be syn of Sesleria rigida Heuff. ex Rchb. #424

Open jhnwllr opened 2 years ago

jhnwllr commented 2 years ago

Describe the problem:

A GBIF user has given the following feedback https://github.com/gbif/backbone-feedback/issues/435

Sesleria filifolia Hoppe https://www.gbif.org/species/4119380

should be syn of

Sesleria rigida Heuff. ex Rchb. https://www.gbif.org/species/4118934

Link to effected CoL webpages: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d43f62e9-d697-41c5-ba9d-0328d7b4571c

Literature references: Deyl, M. 1980: Sesleria Scop. In: Tutin, T.G. Heywood, V.H. Burges, N.A. Valentine, D.H. Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (Eds.) Flora Europaea 5: 173-177. Cambridge.

yroskov commented 2 years ago

The CoL recently replaced World Checklist of Selected Plant Families with the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). However, Sesleria filifolia is treated there as an accepted species: CoL: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/4WZSM WCVP: https://wcvp.science.kew.org/taxon/421345-1