In upcoming changes in a large plant genus, all infraspecific taxa were standardized on rank variety, a few dozen of which are currently in iNaturalist at subspecies rank. When the only change is rank, and the taxon concept and taxon parent are unchanged (as in these cases), should this just be tak…

Best practice for changing between subspecies and varieties in plants?

bouteloua February 18, 2020, 2:23pm 2

To me this kind of change is marginal and I’d rather we manually change the rank than do taxon changes.

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