Taxonomic Merge 69361 (Committed on 2020-02-22)

It is nonsensical to accept a genus, but not its type species. Additional synonym per POWO.

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Added by jameskm on January 15, 2020 05:00 PM | Committed by loarie on February 22, 2020
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Neither New Zealand nor Australia, where this species is native, have adopted the move to Cranfilia.

Posted by mftasp about 4 years ago

Okay. In that case, the genus should not be used on iNaturalist. It was taken up in PPG 1, but not accepted by POWO. Not taking up this genus would, I imagine, mean not accepting most if not all of the segregates of Blechnum s. l., Which there is a logged deviation for: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/700994/taxonomy_details. I understand that there is debate regarding whether or not that portion of PPG 1 was truly "community-derived," but it is a contradiction to accept a genus on the site, but have its type species in another genus.

Posted by jameskm about 4 years ago

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