Observation showing at species level, but has no species-level IDs applied

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marah
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Description of problem
The highest-level ID on this observation is Genus Marah, but the observation is nonetheless at Species level, Marah macrocarpa. Where is the species ID coming from?

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Checked and unchecked “No, it’s as good as it can be” and a hidden ID popped up from @pandbmom

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This still doesn’t make sense to me.

On the right it shows 3 of 3 IDs for Marah. But there are only 2 IDs that can be counted towards the genus.

Counting Issue
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There are three cumulative IDs that don’t conflict, and the community taxon is at the genus level, but there are not three IDs of the genus. It’s a little confusing but it’s not technically wrong.

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It sounds like there’s nothing wrong with the Community ID, but the hidden ID might be a bug. Or just a one-time glitch that’s not systemic. WE can take a look but unless there’s a pattern it might not be diagnosable.