Taxonomic Swap 92179
(Committed on 2021-05-17)
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It says they have not treated it yet, and that it will be in the unpublished volume 3.
@jameskm, @ribes2018: Please note that although Flora of Oregon vol 3 is unpublished, OregonFlora generally maintains fairly up-to-date taxonomy on their website for families included in Vol 3.
In this case though, our former curator and Sidalcea expert Richard Halse has proposed last year that this taxon be treated as Sidalcea asprella Greene subsp. virgata (Howell) Halse. I expect that is how it will be treated in Flora of Oregon vol 3. @jameskm, you should at least reach out to Dr. Halse before making this change.
@mickley Okay, that is a good point. The FNA, Flora of the Pacific Northwest, POWO, and the phylogenetic results of https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.90.3.436 indicate that it should be accepted as at least separate from S. malviflora. The new combination as a subspecies of S. asprella is too new for all of those, though, and apparently even too new for the Oregon Flora site, which lists this taxon as a subspecies of S. malviflora still: https://oregonflora.org/taxa/index.php?taxon=11725&synonym=8393. Eventually the new combination might trickle into future treatments and the databases. If it is accepted that way in the Oregon Flora, it will probably be a good step. For now, though, the consensus still seems to be more on this as a separate species. If it gets more widely accepted, I think we can swap it to that.
Please review Oregon Flora treatments https://oregonflora.org/taxa/search.php?search=Sidalcea