Apologies if this has already been addressed or is documented somewhere, but I’ve searched and cannot find an answer.
What’s the procedure when elevating subspecies to species where they all already have observations? e.g. elevating all of the below to Lomandra longifolia
The other thing, apart from not knowing the correct procedure, that worries me is that L. longifolia has “All subspecies added to the database” next to it.
I think you’re right @brian_d There’s only 14 observations of the subsp. that I want to sink anyway (the other is obviously the autonym/nominate subsp. so not too worried about that) so if things go haywire it’s easy enough for me to manually re-ID them, although I now can’t really think why things might go wrong. As for the “All species added to the database” I’m not sure what’ll happen there so will see :) If the deviation doesn’t update it can easily be edited as well. I guess I was just nervous because I haven’t done this type of merge/swap before
@brian_d the merge all seemed to work out fine so thank you, and the deviation “corrected” itself without any further intervention. In addition to your comments, Scott Loarie gave some feedback on the actual flag as well regarding the “all spp./ssp. added to database” and taxon frameworks which I understand better now. So it seems that merging was the way to go. I was just worried because I’d never done something like that before