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Robert McClenon (talk) 23:08, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Robert McClenon (talk) 23:09, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Legacypac (talk) 20:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Atherosperma

Hello MFdeS, Thanks for your addition to the Talk Page on Atherosperma. You may be right about Plants of the World Online ("have not got around to culling their raw list of names in the literature"). But there are several problems with changing the Wikipedia page.

1. The same species of Atherosperma are listed at IPNI [1]https://ipni.org/?q=Atherosperma

2. The Australian Plant Census is not up-to-date. For example, I have just spent several days changing species of plants formerly Leptospermum into new genera, accepted by all Australian herbaria (eg. "Leptospermopsis", "Apectospermum" and "Gaudium") but not by the APC.

I am only a Wikipedia editor - not a botanist. I am sure a botanist would have much more clout with Rafaël Govaerts at Kew than I would. Perhaps you could let him know? Gderrin (talk) 05:58, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Gderrin, I have already sent a message to Rafaël to see if there is new research we don't know about, so we'll wait to see what he says. I haven't personally seen anything come through, so I think it's just a list of names that no-one over there has got around to checking.

IPNI is the nomenclatural basis for Plants of the World Online, so it's unsurprising that they're in lockstep. MFdeS (talk) 06:09, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Gderrin, I heard back from Rafaël at POWO: they pulled the names unchecked from IPNI, which pulled them from Index Kewensis. He has corrected it, I'm waiting to see if/when changes make it to the live site. I suspect the same issue with other occurrences, the names exist in the literature, but no-one has used them since the 19th Century. MFdeS (talk) 04:38, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for that. I’m away at the moment and will sort the article in about 3 weeks (unless someone does it for me). Gderrin (talk) 14:03, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]