Higher-level lookup for unresolved genera

[rossmounce]

I would like to know the high-level taxonomy of names that are Unresolved e.g. Acetosella http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Acetosella

plant_lookup_version_current()
[1] "1.1.1"
lookup_table(c("Pinus","Acetosella"),missing_action="NA")
       genus   family   order       group
1      Pinus Pinaceae Pinales Gymnosperms
2 Acetosella     <NA>    <NA>        <NA>

I would instead expect / like this to be the output

lookup_table(c("Pinus","Acetosella"),missing_action="NA")
       genus   family   order       group
1      Pinus Pinaceae Pinales Gymnosperms
2      Acetosella Oxalidaceae Oxalidales Angiosperms

Acetosella may not be the best example of this, it has synonyms known to TPL.

Perhaps, Toddavaddia is a better example: it has known higher taxonomy but is not a known synonym of anything else by TPL -- thus it seems very legitimate to ask directly what Toddvaddia is in terms of higher taxonomy. http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Oxalidaceae/Toddavaddia/

[wcornwell]

Acetosella has unresolved species in 2 families, so right now both are getting dropped to preserve the one-to-one genus-to-family mapping. Probably TPL 1.2 will work that out, but not sure what to do on that in the interim...

Toddavaddia looks like a different issue, checking on this...

[wcornwell]

I think Toddavaddia is working...

> lookup_table(c("Pinus","Toddavaddia"),missing_action="NA")
        genus      family      order       group
1       Pinus    Pinaceae    Pinales Gymnosperms
2 Toddavaddia Oxalidaceae Oxalidales Angiosperms

[rossmounce]

"Acetosella has unresolved species in 2 families" -- wow. Okay, I see why this hasn't been implemented then. Complicated! Even so, I would assume those families are within the same Order. Perhaps for complicated cases the Order and the high-level group could still be given?