I made an observation of a shooting star that I doubt can be identified to species, but it is definitely in the genus Primula, and I tried to narrow it down by identifying it as section Dodecatheon to eliminate Primula species that are not shooting stars. Then someone identified it as Primula, disagreeing with section Dodecatheon, so I’m trying to figure out whether section Dodecatheon is obsolete and we shouldn’t use it. There is a taxon page for section Dodecatheon and an Explore search using that name brings up thousands of observations. However, on the Primula taxon page https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/55820-Primula there is no section Dodecatheon (although there is another section listed).
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