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Jabuticaba

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There is a request at Talk:Jabuticaba following on from a bit of edit warring and discussion in 2018 and 2019 to move the page either to Jaboticaba or to Plinia cauliflora. There are claims that the current spelling is unusual, rare in web searches, and not in line with Portuguese. Gbif calls it Brazillian grape tree. Janick & Paull call it Jaboticaba, GRIN common names list both spellings as Portuguese. Is there a wikiproject-plants policy to resolve this perhaps by resorting to that ancient tie-breaker, namely Latin? Sminthopsis84 (talk) 00:13, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That wasn't edit warring so much as a descriptionless rollback of an incomplete edit. I don't think this change would be controversial to anybody in English language circles, as it's pretty much only *because* Wikipedia comes first in search results that it's ever spelled "jabuticaba" here (almost all of cited pages calling it "jabuticaba" are either articles by laymen written several years after the Wikipedia article became prominent, or Brazilian/portuguese-language articles). Dictionaries and encyclopedias have been responsible for spelling changes over the years, but it doesn't need to happen here. Most physical dictionaries and even Wiktionary actually use the "o" spelling, Wikipedia is a very odd outlier. The page doesn't get high traffic from Wikipedians (there's a lot of spelling and phrasing and formatting and translation inconsistency on the page in general, for example there are multiple instances of "jaboticaba" already on the page), so it's unlikely that things will ever change without a push. There was no dissent or even further comment in the original discussion for five years straight. In any case, I support moving the page to Plinia cauliflora because "jaboticaba" is a term that is used for multiple species, like "fig", in the first place. 2600:100F:B1C5:C6B3:A113:6D12:8834:771C (talk) 17:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The formal way to do this would be the proceedure I used on Talk:kishu mikan. You can renew/reopen the request for comments if you don't get much response. Entertainingly, there, the holder of a trademark name made serious and successful efforts to genericize their own trademark, and also released their logos under open licenses, which may put them in a difficult legal position if they ever seek to defend their trademarks! HLHJ (talk) 17:06, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agathyrsus

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Agathyrsus is currrntly an unlabelled {{R from singular}} to Agathyrsi. However, it also appears to be a junior synonym of Cicerbita (Agathyrsus macrophyllus) and possibly also Lactuca (Agathyrsus floridanus, Agathyrsus pulchellus, Agathyrsus sibiricus). Readers who have come across this obsolete genus name won't be helped by finding tremselves looking at a page about an obscure extinct Scythian tribe. Does anyone here feel like sorting out this mess? Regrettably, I lack the stamina.

Other leads include species:Agathyrsus (which includes links to non-English wikis), D.Don, and Category:Taxa named by David Don. (The moth Alcides agathyrsus can be ignored; specific epithets are rarely if ever notable.) Narky Blert (talk) 18:17, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like Agathyrsus needs to be changed from a redirect to a disambiguation page, with the following two items:
  • Agathyrsus, an ancestor of the Ancient people Agathyrsi of the Transylvanian Plateau
  • Agathyrsus D.Don, a taxonomic synonym of the plant genus Cicerbita Wallr.
– Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WP:ONEOTHER may apply. Narky Blert (talk) 19:47, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
True. Could change the redirect to point to Cicerbita and place a hatnote that says "Agathyrsus" redirects here. For the ancestor of Scythian peoples, see Agathyrsi. Or something like that. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:56, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. Thar would surely be the best immediate solution, and I endorse it. Nevertheless, I still have the feeling that an article might be warranted - a distinguished namegiver, and several species now placed within another genus. Experience tells me to place little or no weight on what other wikis might say without further research. Are Don's papers in Biodiversity Heritage Library? Who reclassified the genus and those species? Narky Blert (talk) 17:33, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping to avoid archive for a bit until I get to this. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 12:00, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping again. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 21:15, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Change completed. @Narky Blert, thank you for bringing this up. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 04:45, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

APG website?

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There is the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website published on mobot by Peter F. Stevens, but is there an official website by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group where the APG IV is given (with any updates since it was published in 2016)? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 14:23, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I know of, and the obvious searches find nothing. It would also be nice to know if there is a APG V in the pipeline.  —  Jts1882 | talk  14:28, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like it, as there was a call for a symposium on the topic in Madrid in July at the International Botanical Conference: APG V AND THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSLATING PHYLOGENY INTO CLASSIFICATION WHEN GENE TREES CONFLICT.
Session information: Symposia Session 13.
– Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 15:41, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good find. That suggests that APG V already exists and was discussed at that July meeting. The entry on the symposium says pending (as if a proposal) but they all say that and the program suggests that Symposium 13 took place on July 26. Perhaps it is in press or undergoing review.  —  Jts1882 | talk  17:07, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There is no official APG website. Peter Stevens is a co-author on the APG publications, but APWeb is his own website, and not a product of the group. I was at a talk Stevens gave a couple of years ago where he mentioned APG V being in progress. I'm sure APG V will be easy to find once it has been published. Plantdrew (talk) 22:26, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
While APweb is Stevens' personal website, it might give clues about what to expect in APG V, as I wouldn't expect him to deviate from the APG system. His recognition of Huales (split from Oxalidales), Oncothecales (split from Icacinales), and Cardiopteridales (split from Aquifoliales) may be a sign of changes to come. The Symposium abstracts suggest that such findings from nuclear analysis will be incorporated in APG V. I could be wrong, though; he might just follow whichever phylogeny he thinks is best.  —  Jts1882 | talk  13:54, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Candelabra primula

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Shall Candelabra primula be moved from this common name to its scientific name Primula sect. Proliferae? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 11:56, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There aren't very many articles on infrageneric taxa, but they are far more often titled by vernacular names than are articles for genera and species.
One consideration is that it's hard to know what readers might search for: vernacular name, scientific name with genus and abbreviated rank (Primula sect. Proliferae), scientific name with genus and unabbreviated rank (Primula section Proliferae), scientific name without genus (sect(ion) Proliferae). Articles on infrageneric taxa that don't use the vernacular name for the title are consistently titled with genus and abbreviated rank, but that seems kind of messy to me and not necessarily what readers are going to search for.
There other consideration is how precisely vernacular names for infrageneric taxa correspond to the scientific taxon. And I am not at all sure that they correspond very well. Rhododendron subsect. Pentanthera redirects to North American azaleas, but the subsection includes a species (Rhododendron luteum) that isn't native to North America (and are there other "azaleas" from North American that aren't in the subsection? I don't know).
Other articles ostensibly about infrageneric taxa with vernacular name titles are: snakebark maple, banyan, tree peony, bristlecone pine, pinyon pine, apricot, blackberry, bush lawyer (plant), rowan, blueberry, cranberry, mayhaw and Louisiana iris. Plantdrew (talk) 22:12, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sectional names are not unique. (IPNI doesn't have Primula sect. Proliferae, but does have two sections of that name in other genera, plus a subsection and 4 series. Using the section name with the genus is like using a species epithet without the genus.)
As a point of pedantry, Wikipedia now restricts Sorbus to the rowans, with commentary on the former wider circumscription, so rowan no longer represents an infrageneric taxon. Lavateraguy (talk) 16:08, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Lavateraguy, true, a sectional name wouldn't be identifiable if it were written simply as "sect. Proliferae", but this is Primula sect. Proliferae, including the genus, and the Automatic taxobox in the article Candelabra primula has the parameter |taxon= set to Primula sect. Proliferae.
Plantdrew, I see this as an instance of a plant article having as its name the vernacular, and usually we don't do that. I came across this article and it occured to me that we should apply our standard protocol of naming taxa articles to this one, with a redirect from the common name "Candelabra primula" to "Primula sect. Proliferae". – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 17:09, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Plantdrew, that Rowan article needs some cleanup! First thing I see is that the taxobox does not give the scientific name of the subgenus as the taxon but the entire genus of Sorbus. That simply looks like an easily-fixable error. Everything else could work around that. I haven't read (or even skimmed) that article, but someone missed something. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 17:16, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll defer to the elders on this one. I don't know the taxon nor what would be best here. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 04:49, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a list of all edible plants or subsets?

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Hi all

I'm working with an organisation who might be interested in investing a lot of time to create articles on edible plants. I've seen a lot of estimates in different sources on the number of edible plants, eg I've seen 300,000 written in many news sources.

Is there somewhere that provides a breakdown of the list of edible plant species, even just a subset by type or by parts of the plant which can be eaten eg edible root vegitables, potato tubers can be eaten but leaves are poisonous. I'm aware of Edible_plants but I think I'm safe in assuming that these articles only list a subset of the edible species for each type.

Thanks for any leads

John Cummings (talk) 15:01, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The only source I have ever come across that seems to be what you are looking for is the website Plants for a Future. It is mildly idiosyncratic, but mostly correct and well sourced when it comes to food. The herbalism stuff is mostly junk as is typical for that kind of information.
I'm not sure where the 300,000 edible plants in news sources number might come from. The total number of plant species known to science according to Kew was 391,000 in 2016 (In Mongabay). I've seen articles claiming that half of these may be in some fashion edible (In World Economic Forum). But those are just estimates and highly speculative. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 16:00, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Edible plants is also extremely incomplete. Since some widely-eaten plants are edible only if carefully prepared, we might need some cats for that. HLHJ (talk) 00:01, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Depreciating Selina Wamucii as a source

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Is it time to add Selina Wamucii plants to the list of deprecated sources because new editors are starting to regularly cite it? The last time this was discussed back in March 2024 it was more of a theoretical problem. In the last week I have removed three citations by two different editors and I'm wondering if other editors have started to see this.

Some examples of obviously erroneous information:

  • Elodea bifoliata "small, aquatic plant native to Southeast Asia" later on the same page it lists the native range as "North America". It also says that it can be found in "North America, Europe, and Asia," but POWO does not list it as living outside N. America.
  • Penstemon albomarginatus "native to western North America, from British Columbia to California, and grows in moist meadows and open woods." Actually a desert plant confined to the Mojave. Later contradicts itself saying, "drought-tolerant and can thrive in poor soils."
  • Carnegiea gigantea "characterized by its large, barrel-shaped stems and white flowers," then later, "large, yellow flowers with five petals and a yellow center." Correctly states that the saguaro is, "native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico," but later says, "native to India, Sri Lanka, and parts of Southeast Asia. It can be found in tropical and subtropical forests, as well as in disturbed areas."

Regardless of how S-W created their database it is stuffed with errors and contradicts itself even on the same page. Because it is unfortunately highly ranked by search engines for less well known plants it is natural for newer editors to mistakenly use it as a source and it is likely there are subtle errors that would not jump out like the glaring ones I have used as examples. There is no bad faith efforts to use S-W, but the edit filter would be a good way to let editors know that it should not be used. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 19:07, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My 2¢:
  1. I didn't know Wikipedia had a list of deprecated sources.
  2. If it's not reliable (or even relevant), we should not be using it.
– Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:25, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers for bringing this up MtBotany. I don't believe we should be using sources with direct commercial links like this (Selina Wamucii is a company that connects farmers to produce procesors/retailers) in the first place - the only website I would trust to provide both information and sell plants is perhaps the Royal Horticultural Society website. I find that information provided by sellers of plants tends to be unreliable, and I find it questionable to provide links to purchasable products on Wikipedia. I would support placing Selina Wamucii on the "caution" list at the very least. Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 08:10, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Following up so it doesn't get dropped in an archive. Did this get dealt with? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 04:50, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It did not get dealt with. There are only about 50 sources listed at Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources#Currently_deprecated_sources and it's a bureaucratic process to get them listed there (and the sources that are deprecated have much higher profiles than S-W). I'd support an effort to deprecate it, but so far it's only being used at a scale that I can handle by myself (mostly, thanks MtBotany). I came across a new article today that cited it and removed the content sourced to S-W. I've done a couple searches for S-W since I first brought it up here in March, and it looks like I've found 18 article since then that cited it. Plantdrew (talk) 02:40, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This warning by Alex Lees on Twitter about AI-generated websites may be of interest. It's about bird sources, but if there are many such sources on different subjects, Wikipedia may have to update its procedures to make it easier to blacklist AI-generated sources. —  Jts1882 | talk  11:34, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, the current procedure for deprecating sources revolves mostly around sources with political/ideological biases (although a few are considered a problem for being user-generated). Most of the deprecated sources aren't actually black-listed. MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed_additions may be the appropriate venue for doing something about S-W. There are thousands of black-listed sites. (I wouldn't say that S-W is getting spammed per se, but it looks like there have been a few sites that have been black-listed for being AI generated content). I'll try to get around to bringing it up there later today. Plantdrew (talk) 20:59, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would recommend taking this to WP:RSN. Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:46, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I'll post about the subject there. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 02:25, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stub-to-Start Drive articles upgraded: Day 14

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Hi, everyone! I'd like to excitedly announce that as of today so far, the Stub-to-Start drive participants have reported a count of 61 species article upgrades! The list of articles upgraded is manually tracked at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Stub to Start drive/Statistics. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 21:12, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. That is a great initiative, a lot of Wikiprojects need stub-to-start drives. Well done everyone! HLHJ (talk) 00:04, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Carrot

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Carrot has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 21:08, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article Little leaf of brinjal

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The article Little leaf of brinjal was created in 2015. It appears to be attempting to describe a (possibly significant) disease of Solanum melongena (eggplant). "Brinjal" is a common name for eggplant in some areas of Africa and South Asia. I am suspecting that this could be made a redirect to an existing article for the pathogen that causes the disease that appears to be called "little leaf", "brinjal little leaf", or "little leaf of brinjal" OR that it could be added to the eggplant article. Eggplant § Cultivation and pests, last paragraph, looks suspiciously like it could be referring to the same disease. I have not investigated further. Does anyone have the time to take a look at this? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 05:21, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The last paragraph of Eggplant § Cultivation and pests does not appear to be referring to the same disease. It refers to a phytophagous moth (I wouldn't call it a disease), while little leaf is caused by a bacterium, and transmitted by a leafhopper (true bug). Lavateraguy (talk) 13:10, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Little leaf of brinjal is associated with several different Phytoplasma groups, but the commonest is Ca. Phytoplasma trifolii. Wikipedia does not appear to have an article for this. But a 2023 paper identifies that causal agent as a new species, distinct from Ph. trifolii; the paper is paywalled and I can't tell whether it gives the agent a binomial name. Lavateraguy (talk) 13:26, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The 2023 paper (and the 2021 one) are available through the Wikipedia Library (Snehi & Raj, 2023). Based on a quick skim,it looks like it is still a Candidatus species.  —  Jts1882 | talk  13:49, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On a quick scan, they didn't give it a binomial. Also the abstract is misleading - it should be "A phytoplasma associated with brinjal little leaf" rather than "The phytoplasma associated with brinjal little leaf". The text confirms that several different Ca. Phytoplasma species are associated with brinjal little leaf, including Ca. Ph. trifolii and Ca. Ph. asteris. Lavateraguy (talk) 14:21, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Jts1882 and Lavateraguy for looking at this while I caught some sleep. Thank you Lavateraguy for at least making the article look encyclopedic. That really helps. So what do you folks think? Maybe further study of those sources, including the new ones? Maybe this could (eventually) be referred to in eggplant, and this article could refer and link to the several phytoplasma that cause it and the insects that transmit those phytoplasma? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 16:55, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've just added a paragraph to eggplant thereby deorphaning the article.
On the previous cursory look on the web, the disease is notable and has enough sources to support an article. The article is extendable. The material on control measures in particular could do with some further clean up.
It appears that multiple Phytoplasmas cause particular diseases, and individual phytoplasmas cause multiple diseases (see Phytoplasma solani for example). I think that the diseases are more notable than the species, and references to the various species involved with little leaf of brinjal are liable to remain redlinks. Lavateraguy (talk) 21:28, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent. Thank you for looking into this, Lavateraguy. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 22:30, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Newly created category: Lithophytes

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Just wanted to announce that I've gone ahead and created a category for lithophytes, similar to the existing Category:Epiphytes, as I realised there was only a category for lithophytic orchids and nothing for all the other lithophytic plants. I've already added a handful of articles, but would very much appreciate it if you all could add any other lithophytic plants that you come across in your editing :) Cheers, Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 08:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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It appears that the the USDA has changed its PLANTS database web link without a redirect – again.

This affects citation templates: {{PLANTS}} (aka {{Cite PLANTS}}) (used on over 4,000 pages), {{Cite usda plants}} (used on 88 pages), {{Taxid}} (used on 2 whole article pages), as well as the {{Taxonbar}} when the PLANTS identifier is on a Wikidata record for a taxon (USDA PLANTS ID (P1772) which is set to the identifier for the taxon on that website (e.g., "PHUR" for Phyllanthus urinaria (Q1131974)) (used on I don't want to even think of how many pages).

I thought I'd post this here to let people who use this website know, because it is likely that someone(s) in the Plants project maintains those templates, and posting it here is efficient (for me).

Clicking directly on the identifier value (the "PHUR") from Wikidata also goes to a "bad" page.

The following take you to a page that shows the quote I have given in smaller font, below.

Page not found

We’re sorry, we can’t find the page you're looking for. The site administrator may have removed it, changed its location, or made it otherwise unavailable.

The link built by Cite usda plants and Taxid seems to go into a search that would probably eventually time out.


Once you are on the USDA PLANTS DB website, typing in the scientific name in the search box on the website will then take you to a URL formatted like the following (same species I have been using – Phyllanthus urinaria).

The change from old to new is shown here. A prettier link. 

Old: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=PHUR
New: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/plant-profile/PHUR

I didn't run all the tests for all (or more) species.

Who is best suited to make the changes?

On a related note (possibly worthy of a different post and something that, if possible, could be done after the links are changed), it looks like Cite usda plants is a CS2 template based on Citation. PLANTS (and Cite PLANTS) are based on Cite web. Do you think it's possible to combine the two templates (creating a wrapper or redirect out of Cite usda plants) for easier maintenance and allowing the user to just specify the citation style needed (CS1 or CS2)? Is that already built in to the PLANTS template? I think Cite web allows that. And then there's this Taxid template... – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 23:28, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've update the url at {{PLANTS}}, {{Cite usda plants}} and {{Taxid}}. I've changed the URL formatter on Wikidata so {{Taxonbar}} shouldbe fixed (perhaps with a cashing delay). Any other changes needed?  —  Jts1882 | talk  07:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're amazing! I've been manually searching for any cite web and bare URLs going to any of the invalid links and changing them to use the PLANTS template. I don't think there are any templates other than the ones I have listed. Thank you so much. I will comment here if I find something else. Maybe someone else knows of other places this might crop up. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 08:00, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
{{PLANTS}} is already a wrapper for {{cite web}} so takes |mode=c2 and other cite web parameters. Are the other templates needed or should they be merged into {{PLANTS}}? With two uses is {{Taxid}} even needed?  —  Jts1882 | talk  08:02, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would think both could be done away with and any unique functionality combined with the current PLANTS template. But I'm just one person. Maybe asking the editor(s) who use them. I can track down some usernames if you wish. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 08:09, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The outputs of {{PLANTS}} and {{Cite usda plants}} are very different and neither is close to the format suggested at the Plant Database.
USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Oenothera arizonica​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
Oenothera arizonica, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Profile, December 7, 2011
  • The Plant Database suggests:
Natural Resources Conservation Service. PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture. Accessed November 4, 2024, from https://plants.usda.gov.
  • I think something like this would be best for a unified template
NRCS. "Oenothera arizonica". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 4 November 2024.
The latter is closer to the suggested citation and more similar to other citation templates. {{PLANTS}} is a bit odd within its use of |author=USDA, NRCS and |publisher=National Plant Data Team. Alternatively leave {{PLANTS}} with the corrected URL and add a wrapper for {{Cite usda plants}}. Thoughts?  —  Jts1882 | talk  17:19, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I converted most instances of {{Cite usda plants}} to {{PLANTS}} several years ago; I didn't realize they were using different citation styles. {{Cite usda plants}} had less than 10 uses (maybe even as few as 2 or 3) last time I looked at it (which was awhile ago). If I recall correctly the only articles using it when I last looked called it multiple times; I think they were genus articles that called it for each species. It's possible that I replaced it in those articles as well and forgot about it. It looks like MtBotany has been introducing it to more articles recently.
I support Jts1882's suggestion about changing the citation for USDA PLANTS. With only 88 uses, I'd just suggest changing all of the {{Cite usda plants}} over to {{PLANTS}}. And I think {{Taxid}} should just be deleted. I think that template name is misleading; to me it suggests something along the lines of {{Taxonbar}} that supports different IDs for multiple websites, when it really only supports one ID that is shared by two websites. Plantdrew (talk) 17:32, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A few years ago, we changed the output of PLANTS so it looks like it does now, which was consistent with what I remember the USDA wanted then. I noticed last night they have changed it (again). I agree with deleting Taxid, actually would just like to see Cite usda plants deleted as well, and changing the output format of PLANTS as you suggested, Jts1882. I think it is possible that Taxid was created to generate a really short external link section output string, and anything that avoids bare URLs within an article is great. But I think it's something that should be done, if it needs to be done, through PLANTS. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 18:33, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When using {{PLANTS}}, there is code out there that sets the value of |last1=((USDA, NRCS)) (in articles) because for some reason, the template was not working with shortened footnotes, even though |last1= is set to that value. (The double parens were to avoid the error created because of using punctuation in the last name parameter. I found that in the Wiki documentation somewhere.)

So when I would use the code {{Sfnp|USDA, NRCS|2014}} (or Sfn) having defined the reference like this (without setting the |last1= parameter)

{{Cite PLANTS | date = 2014 | id = SYEU | taxon = Symphyotrichum eulae | access-date = 27 October 2022 }}

I would get the cite error sfnp error: no target: CITEREFUSDA,_NRCS2014. It can be replicated. Thus, I had to set |last1=((USDA, NRCS)) even though it was set that way in the template! If you change it to |last1=NRCS, then existing code out there that sets last1 should still work, but in the future, hopefully I won't have to overwrite the value.

Testing {{Sfnp|NRCS|2014}}, {{Sfnp|NRCS|n.d.}}, etc., would be important. The test cases, or some of them, might already be in the test cases subpage of the template. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 23:10, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I find ten pages setting |last1=((USDA, NRCS)) with this search. In tests, the {{sfnp}} links still work when I delete the |last1=((USDA, NRCS)) line. Perhaps there was some bug that has been fixed.  —  Jts1882 | talk  16:03, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's strange, because I tested it and got the error yesterday right before I made the comment. Hmmm. Anyway, thanks for the search. I'll be able to update them easily to use the uniform value as soon as the {{PLANTS}} template is changed. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 06:10, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jts1882, do you think it's okay to go ahead and update the output of the PLANTS template with the format you suggested? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 12:00, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template for citing NatureServe Explorer

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Does anyone know if there is a template for citing NatureServe Explorer? I have looked and don't think there is, so I wrote one with documentation in my user space today as a needed distraction. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 02:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A long overdue template for citing NatureServe Explorer has been created. Template:Cite NatureServe. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 23:50, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're a legend for this, thank you! I actually tried to figure out how to write a template like this for this exact purpose the other day, because I spend a lot of time adding conservation statuses to speciesboxes, but decided against actually publishing it as I have 0 experience creating templates and wasn't convinced it would actually work. Now if only there was an easy way to convert all the existing Template:Cite web references.. Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 05:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use of "Plants described in" category for conserved names

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There's no clear advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Description in year categories#Choosing a category as to what to do in the case of conserved names. The basionym of Euonymus fortunei is Elaeodendron fortunei dated to 1863, but the species was actually first described in 1851 as Euonymus hederaceus. However, Elaeodendron fortunei is conserved against Euonymus hederaceus. I'm inclined to use Category:Plants described in 1851, but I'm unsure as to whether this is how the category is meant to be used. Advice, please. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:08, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the category page, and likely on all of these year category pages, the first sentence is:
This category includes plant species that were first formally and validly described in 1851 according to the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
If the 1863 name is conserved, it means that another name was valid. If that is the 1851 name, and it was the earliest, then I think using the 1851 category is appropriate. You might want to put a comment in the code explaining the reasoning in case someone happens to want to change it later. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:01, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. That's certainly my view, but I couldn't remember any discussion of such cases before (although I'm sure there must have been). Peter coxhead (talk) 19:39, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added this advice to Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Description in year categories#Choosing a category. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Archive open for lending again

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I don't know how many other editors use Archive.org for botanical texts, but for the last month it has been down due to hacking and then their tech team needing to do a good deal of work to secure the site. I have found that I have been able to log into my account and borrow texts again. I changed my password as a precaution, though I did not receive an official notice that it was necessary because emails and passwords were breached during the hack as reported in Wired. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 17:18, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hydrophylloideae/Hydrophyllaceae

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I recently updated Hydrophylloideae a bit. I'm not really clear what to do about this group, particularly which genera should be included (e.g. via genus taxonomy templates). Recent papers and APweb now appear to reject the broad circumscription of Boraginaceae used in the 2016 APG IV system, recognizing, for example, Hydrophyllaceae and Namaceae. I haven't found a circumscription of the subfamily Hydrophylloideae which seems to me to be sufficiently recent to be acceptable, so in the Hydrophylloideae article I've resorted to using APweb's Hydrophyllaceae plus Namaceae. What do other editors here think? Peter coxhead (talk) 17:40, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would use APG IV, discuss the papers, and talk about the website (what it is) and what it has now. Basically, what you just wrote here but elaborated encyclopedically. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:28, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I expect APGV will split Boraginaceae, but until it comes out (or until most taxonomic databases start splitting), we should retain Boraginaceae s.l. Using APweb's as you've done seems reasonable for now. Plantdrew (talk) 22:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agree, wait for APG V for any change. The current treatment is a good example of how to treat a common alternative taxonomy that differs from the guideline source.  —  Jts1882 | talk  10:03, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On sources, Hilger & Cole have a Boraginales Phylogeny Poster and a Boraginaceae Phylogeny Poster (both 2020). They list the genera with subfamilies and tribes where they exist. I assume it will be very similar to the APweb treatment.  —  Jts1882 | talk  10:15, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to everyone for your comments.
@Jts1882: I think I did at one time know about these posters, but had forgotten. I've added the Boraginales one to the article as a reference.
@Plantdrew: all the non-redirected genera I've now listed in Hydrophylloideae have taxonomy templates with Hydrophylloideae as the parent. It seems that you created them in May 2017, but the refs field is empty. Do you recall what source you used?
Let's hope APG V appears soon and is followed by the major taxonomic databases. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:09, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Peter coxhead:, I don't recall. May 2017 is close to the beginning of my efforts with automatic taxoboxes in February 2017, and I'm now surprised to be reminded that I had tackled a family that had a subfamily classification that early. Early on, I was checking The Plant List to confirm genus placement to family (without adding it as a reference to taxonomy templates), and generally avoiding working on families with subfamily classification since The Plant List didn't have that. I'd guess I went with GRIN for Boraginaceae subfamilies since that was (and still is) the reference for subfamilies in the Boraginaceae article (although that is now out of date; GRIN is currently splitting Boraginaceae). Plantdrew (talk) 20:30, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Plantdrew: yes, that's the problem: sources like GRIN that give subfamilies do seem to be splitting Boraginaceae. Maybe we shouldn't be using Hydrophylloideae as a parent in taxonomy templates at present. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:19, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe not. NCBI also splits Boraginaceae; NCBI, GRIN and APweb are the three sites I would consider reliable sources for infrafamily classification (along with some other sites that cover a single family). I do look at iNaturalist and Wikispecies to see what they are doing, but wouldn't cite them (note that they don't split). Most of the genus taxonomy templates just have Boraginaceae as the parent.
Boraginoideae is written as if Boraginaceae were split, and {{Taxonomy/Cynoglossoideae}} assumes a split (it would just be a tribe in Boraginoideae otherwise) Plantdrew (talk) 17:26, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Cocoa bean#Requested move 7 November 2024

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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Cocoa bean#Requested move 7 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 02:44, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Radulaceae

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In a 2022 paper, the authors made the case for separating the monotypic liverwort family Radulaceae into three genera. WFO accepted this change. See sources, below. We should implement this, correct? I'm currently working on a list of everything that needs to be done in order to do that. I did a search of archives of this talk page and did not find discussions that seemed related. There is no discussion on the talk page for Radula (plant) (which is where Radulaceae redirects to), nor on List of Radula species, so I'm suspecting this has not been brought up.

– Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 12:32, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The changes were proposed in this pub doi:10.11646/bde.45.1.7 in 2022, (which can be viewed here [1]). In lichen taxonomy, classification changes based on divergence estimates are quite controversial, but I don't know what the vibe is in plant taxonomy. I'm happy to update the relevant pages (and create the new genera) if that's appropriate. Esculenta (talk) 13:25, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The split is also recognised at The Bryophyte Nomenclator. With WFO accepting it, are there any regularly updated sources that don't recognise the split?  —  Jts1882 | talk  14:10, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I preemptively updated List of Radula species. Easy revert if needed. I'll be offline for a few hours. @Jts1882 Catalogue of Life shows it, too. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 14:23, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Catalogue of Life uses Bryonames as their source. I think that is how I found out about The Bryophyte Nomenclator.  —  Jts1882 | talk  14:44, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WFO uses Bryonames as well [2]. Plantdrew (talk) 17:31, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Further research shows that we have more restructuring to do. I researched up to division Marchantiophyta. Fortunately, it has the same three classes that we have in the article Marchantiophyta. However, child taxa of some classes have changed. I foresee some restructuring up to the Class level. I won't explain it all here, but I'm taking notes. I'm willing to and interested in taking this on since I've been doing the research.

Here is what alerted me, then I dug deeper, or climbed higher.

Family Radulaceae is no longer placed in order Porellales Schljakov, which is the order we use in Template:Taxonomy/Radulaceae.

Marchantiophyta Stotler & Crand.-Stotl.
Jungermanniopsida Stotler & Crand.-Stotl.
Jungermanniidae Engl.
Porellales Schljakov [three families]
Goebeliellaceae
Lepidolaenaceae
Porellaceae

Radulaceae is now placed by itself in order Radulales Stotler & Crand.-Stotl. The taxonomy from WFO of Radulales Stotler & Crand.-Stotl. is

Marchantiophyta Stotler & Crand.-Stotl.
Jungermanniopsida Stotler & Crand.-Stotl.
Jungermanniidae Engl.
Radulales Stotler & Crand.-Stotl. [one family]
Radulaceae Müll.Frib.

We have used name Radulineae R.M. Schust. as a suborder under Porellales. However, Radulineae is treated by WFO as a synonym of order Radulales Stotler & Crand.-Stotl., currently eliminating this.

Unless there are concerns or objections, I'll work on this. I have spent time in taxonomy templates before, so it's not new to me. Tagging Ethmostigmus and Esculenta so you'll see what's up. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 13:52, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bryonames is apparently following Table 1 in doi:10.1002/ajb2.16249 for changes to liverwort classification (I haven't checked the moss classification against Bryonames yet). Bryonames isn't recognizing the suborders though. When there's a reference in a taxonomy template be sure to update it if you're changing the parent. Plantdrew (talk) 16:29, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Plantdrew thank you. You saved me the steps of digging up the source then confirming it here. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 16:41, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've had a quick look at mosses and there is some change based on Bechteler et al. (2023),especially around Dicranales. A while back I set most of the higher classification of mosses to the classification of Goffinet (a website, based on his classic book, with some updates; last update in 2020). His group seem responsible for most of the new orders and family movements in the Bryonames classification. I'll have a deeper look tomorrow.  —  Jts1882 | talk  20:43, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Apart from a few sequence changes, the significant changes involve Dicranidae, especially the break-up of Dicranales.
I'll have a go at updating the taxonomy.  —  Jts1882 | talk  15:31, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent. Cheers to you and Thank you! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 15:59, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jts1882, Template:Bryophyta is going to need a refresher, too. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:25, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Esculenta, I'm working on a taxa inventory of Marchantiophyta (liverworts) based on the latest changes we've been discussing. I'm more interested in creating the taxonomy "stuff", and you are really good at reading the papers and updating articles. After I get the inventory ready (hopefully by EOD tomorrow), would you be interested in working on this to do updates? We can split the work. I could work on the taxonomy templates, lists, etc., and perhaps you could enhance existing articles. I think we're going to need some additional articles, too, at the family and above. Not all of them, but perhaps some of the most important ones. You're doing good work on Radula. You could go ahead any time and split off Radulaceae Müll.Frib. (currently a redirect to Radula (plant) into a separate article since the family is no longer monotypic. There are changes I'm going to have to make to the taxonomy template for the taxobox, and I can get to that later today. Or let me know if you have other ideas? You are so fast! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:54, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! I especially like working on family articles (there's usually so much literature to work with), so will split off Radulaceae some time this weekend. I'll also make Dactyloradula (monospecific, quick and easy). Esculenta (talk) 20:00, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome! You're a rock star! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:01, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Esculenta, also, the suborder is gone, and the order is different (see above in this comment thread). I will get that changed in the taxobox stuff, but you should use the new order in the prose. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:34, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a citation template for the paper Plantdrew mentioned today. I skimmed it. Very interesting.

– Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:32, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Made articles for the genus and the family, but I'll let you handle updating the taxonomy templates. Esculenta (talk) 18:34, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Taxonomy/Radulales, has been created. Anything that descends from Radulales should be correct now in the templates. There are additional taxonomy templates that need to be created. I'm working on those. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 04:23, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citing Bryonames

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I've added an option to {{cite taxon}} for citing Bryonames.

  • Genus: {{Cite taxon|bryonames|genus=Sphagnum|access-date=17 November 2024}}
    Brinda, John C.; Atwood, John J. (eds.). "A synopsis of Sphagnum". The Bryophyte Nomenclator. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
  • Family: {{Cite taxon|bryonames|family=Hookeriaceae|access-date=17 November 2024}}
    Brinda, John C.; Atwood, John J. (eds.). "A synopsis of Hookeriaceae". The Bryophyte Nomenclator. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
  • Order or other taxon
    • {{Cite taxon|bryonames|order=Funariales|access-date=17 November 2024}}
    Brinda, John C.; Atwood, John J. (eds.). "A Classification of the Funariales". The Bryophyte Nomenclator. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
    • {{Cite taxon|bryonames|taxon=Hypnanae|access-date=17 November 2024}}
    Brinda, John C.; Atwood, John J. (eds.). "A Classification of the Hypnanae". The Bryophyte Nomenclator. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
    • {{Cite taxon|bryonames|taxon=Dicranidae|access-date=17 November 2024}}
    Brinda, John C.; Atwood, John J. (eds.). "A Classification of the Dicranidae". The Bryophyte Nomenclator. Retrieved 17 November 2024.

In general, you can just use |taxon= and it will work, but |genus= adds italics to the title and |genus= and |family= produce a "Synopsis of ..." style title following the Bryonames website. You can override the |title= and |url= or add citation formatting parameters like |mode=cs1/cs2. I could create a {{cite bryonames}} if people prefer.  —  Jts1882 | talk  16:32, 17 November 2024 (UTC) I[reply]

@Jts1882, I would like a Cite bryonames for cs1, if you don't mind. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 04:42, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(I would always like that. Thank you) – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 04:44, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps
{{Cite bryonames | taxon= |rank= |access-date = }}
or
{{Cite bryonames | taxon/order/family/genus= |access-date = }}
– Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 06:04, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done It looks like all is working as intended. Let me know if there is a problem.  —  Jts1882 | talk  08:33, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.

About 70 subcategories, the oldest from 2015, are also being proposed for deletion. Plants are underrepresented in the species categorized. HLHJ (talk) 03:55, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Liverworts, Bryonames, and suborders & subfamilies

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Bryonames does not give suborders and subfamilies for liverworts (Marchantiophyta Stotler & Crand.-Stotl.). I have not checked its other categories. Do you know if this is typical of Bryonames (similar to POWO also not giving subs)? Did Bryonames once recognize these and now does not? How should we handle this in our taxonomy templates, and if we wish to use these levels, where are we to get our information? @Peter coxhead, @Plantdrew – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 01:46, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've never done much on bryophytes, so can't help, I'm afraid. I think that some of the major taxonomic databases, like PoWO (and indeed the World Spider Catalog which I use a lot as I edit spider articles as well) deliberately avoid 'minor' ranks because they tend to be less stable and more disputed. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:12, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Bryonames doesn't use suborders or subfamilies for mosses or hornworts, either. Is there a classifications with suborders and subfamilies that is more recent than those in Goffinet & Shaw's Bryophyte Biology (2nd ed, 2008). The Söderström et al (2016) classification of hornworts and liverworts didn't use either rank. Subfamilies are used for hornworts in Villarreal & Goffinet's online classification, which is based on the chapter by Renzaglia, Villarreal & Duff (2008) in the book, although there are some changes updates (I'm not sure of the date). There was a similar online classification for liverworts (ca. 2013-14), but I can't find it (it may have been on the late Ray Stotler's website). —  Jts1882 | talk  10:37, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think the online classification of liverworts is this archived one: Liverwort Classification at the Rank of Genus and Above. It's based on the book with updates from a 2009 work. It included suborders, but not subfamilies.  —  Jts1882 | talk  16:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Söderström DOES include suborders and subfamilies, and is largely following Crandall-Stotler (the author of the liverwort classification chapter in Goffinet & Shaw). Crandall-Stotler lists suborders but doesn't list subfamilies. Saccogynaceae and Stephaniellaceae are two families that Söderström recognizes that weren't recognized by Crandall-Stotler; Bryonames accepts both. I'm not sure if that means that Bryonames is largely following Söderström, with the changes recommended by Bechteler, or if Bryonames is cobbled together from various references post-Crandall-Stotler (i.e., whatever sources Söderström followed in recognizing Saccogynaceae etc.).
Bryonames is a product of MOBOT, and is largely generated from Tropicos. While Tropicos includes records for taxa at minor ranks, it usually does not assign children to them; liverwort suborders are an exception to that. I do see that Bryonames puts Jubulaceae in Jubulales while Tropicos has it in Porellales (and suborder Jubulineae). Tropicos records for Jubulaceae and Jubulineae were lasted edited in 2017 (post-Söderström, pre-Bechteler). I would guess that Bryonames may have once included suborders.
I don't think Wikipedia has any articles for liverwort subfamilies and suborders (but I have created redirects for them when they were monotypic in Söderström). I guess we could just omit them from taxoboxes. Crandall-Stotler is old enough that I wouldn't want to cite it, but the more recent options are Söderström (also getting kind of old now) or Bryonames; Bechteler is not a comprehensive classification. For taxonomy templates, I generally prefer citing journal articles over websites that are following the classification from a journal article; the journal article is static, while the website can change at any time (it's not helping my opinion of Bryonames that it has updates that aren't in Tropicos). Plantdrew (talk) 22:28, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flowers name

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Hello, Can somebody help recognize there flowers:

They both look like Gazania to me, but I couldn't tell you what cultivar. Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 07:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @Ethmostigmus:. --Gpkp (talk) 07:58, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd've said that the second looks like a Dahlia. The buds in the background are out of focus, but the associated involucres look like Dahlia and not Gazania. Lavateraguy (talk) 09:48, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @Lavateraguy:. --Gpkp (talk) 11:01, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Move request for division (biology)

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My watchlist has informed me of a proposal to move division (biology) to division (taxonomy). (This would be a move over redirect.) Lavateraguy (talk) 09:53, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Number of orchid cultivars

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I just removed a statement about the number of hybrid cultivars from Orchid. The claim had been in the lead of the page and completely unsourced since it was first created. If anyone has ideas about sources for an accurate figure that can be trusted not to have circularly got their information from wikipedia in the first place, please join in at Talk:Orchid#Number of cultivars. Averixus (talk) 08:14, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Historic taxo box?

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Is there such a thing as a taxo/information box for groups of plants that were previously regarded as a species, genera, etc., but are still used in horticulture and so we are retaining the article? The most recent one I'm aware of like this is Nomocharis. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 21:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, our WP:PLANTSTEMPLATE says no. So it would seem that taxobox should be removed. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 21:34, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that it should be removed, I was hopeful that there would be an equivalent of the of the notice put on the German language wikipedia, example Nomocharis at de and my rough translation.

The classification of living organisms is the subject of ongoing research. Different systematic classifications exist alongside and following each other. The taxon dealt with here has become obsolete as a result of new research or is not part of the not part of the systematics presented in the German-language Wikipedia.

WikiProject Plants
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(obsolete)
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Subfamily: Lilioideae
Tribe: Lilieae
Genus: Nomocharis
Though it would be even better with an infobox under it showing where it was previously classified. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 23:47, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've never understood the argument against using taxoboxes in articles on obsolete taxa. If there are reasons for having the article in the first place, then a summary of taxonomic information is appropriate and taxoboxes do that. There is a |classification_status= parameter which can be used to note the status.  —  Jts1882 | talk  08:02, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think one reason may be that editors didn't want to create taxonomy templates for obsolete taxa, particularly when automated taxoboxes were in a minority. There's still an argument for not creating a taxonomy template for an obsolete genus, I think, since its absence may act as a signal if someone creates an article on a species in an obsolete genus. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:13, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My understanding of the reason for removing taxoboxes is that it is impossible to say where APG would place an order or family that it doesn't recognize, and pre-APG classifications at the ordinal level varied highly between different systems. That reason doesn't apply so much for genera which APG itself doesn't list at all, and where classifications may generally agree about family placement. There are a lot of articles on obsolete orders and families (relative to the number of recognized orders/families), and few articles on obsolete genera (again, relative to the number of accepted genera).
I'd support some kind of notice or taxobox for obsolete genera. Plantdrew (talk) 18:18, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, in my comments above I was only really thinking about genera. It is indeed difficult or impossible to put old suprageneric ranks into any currently recognizable taxonomic hierarchy, and we shouldn't try. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:23, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The newly adopted notability guidelines for species reads, for Eukaryotes, "All eukaryotic species that are accepted by taxonomists are presumed notable. Acceptance by taxonomists is proven by the existence of a correct name for plants, fungi, and algae, or a valid name for animals and protozoa." The example in this thread is a genus, not a species, but I don't think we should be keeping the article without a very good reason, regardless of what other wikis do. I remember the discussion about the page a few weeks ago on this talk page. I didn't get involved but am surprised that the article was kept rather than being merged (or written) into the article(s) for the acceped genus/genera. I don't have a strong argument for or against a taxobox for unaccepted taxa – yet. I want to make sure, though, that we are remembering Wikipedia's guidelines and not just having a discussion here then making a decision without knowing the broader implications. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:26, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Linking taxon authors

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Is there is simple way of finding appropriate links for taxon authors when making lists of species in genus articles and other taxon lists? When I link authors with potential articles for prominent authors it usually involves guesses and disambiguation pages, which is time consuming and means I often don't add links. Is there a list somewhere or would such a list be a useful tool?  —  Jts1882 | talk  18:04, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know about the ever-growing List of botanists by author abbreviations? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:16, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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