This is rather frustrating in many ways. Most people follow Fryer&Hylmö as do all flora’s (see e.g. Flora of North America on efloras.org ). According to at least one curator, Inaturalist chooses to follow POWO (a completely random treatment dreamt up by someone who had a couple too many drinks). No…

Hi @spins - if you see an issue with the taxonomy on iNaturalist, please flag the taxon/species in question. It’s preferred to use the flagging system rather than the forum. Only a small number of iNaturalist users also have forum accounts and curator work is primarily handled via flags. iNaturalis…

Note to the curators: Cotoneaster

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Note to the curators: Cotoneaster

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