Continuing the discussion from How should I handle a new species that POWO lists as "unplaced"? : [image] How should I handle a new species that POWO lists as "unplaced"? POWO has a concept of an “ unplaced name ”, one that doesn’t fit within its hierarchy. The flag in question is for Philodendr…

there is no way to resolve this type of flag without having an update from in the literature – just leave it open. unplaced names require an actual nomenclatural fix to be published to catch up to the taxonomy. this is not really something that can be fixed all on iNaturalist – even if the near-term…

You don’t resolve the flag until a new name is published for this taxon. Just leave the flag open, with no deviation.

I believe the name in question does not have nomenclatural issues. Philodendron imbe | International Plant Names Index It seems to me that very often the ‘unplaced’ flag in POWO means simply that the Kew curators have not got around to reviewing the status of that name and/or there is no recent re…

All names (unplaced or not) in POWO have been reviewed. It is not always a nomenclatural problem. See : https://powo.science.kew.org/about-wcvp#unplacednames Most of the time, it is : no correct name is available in an accepted genus and I think this is the case with Philodendron imbe. These…

[image] sbrobeson: flags have no intrinsic urgency anyway, so there should be no issue with letting it sit. I couldn’t disagree more with this sentiment. There’s many unresolved flags, which together makes a backlog that buries the actionable or at least discussion worthy ones amongst the rec…

I fail to see how this is intrinsic to an individual flag itself.

I should maybe clarify my sentiment to differentiate urgency from resolvability, i’m just rather frustrated by resolvable flags being lost amongst others, but understandably with many of those that are potentially actionable, then of course helpful to have discussion time, await outside changes, upd…

How to resolve a flag for an unplaced taxon?

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sjl197 February 25, 2025, 12:51am 10

Else - see original flag - apparently typification happened in followup 2011 paper that i’d missed, but authors conclude “we have seen no specimen which matches it”

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