zuzu said:
At any rate, for now I'm going to leave our entries as they are because the 2014 and 2016 dates on the Catalogue of Life pages are more recent than the dates cited by all of the other sources.
The IPNI last update for A. longifolia is January 2016. It states the name is illegitimate. The CoL uses the IPNI.
HamiltonSquare said:On the IPNI home page under TIPS it reads....
"IMPORTANT: IPNI does not have information on what are currently accepted names and what are taxonomic (i.e. heterotypic) synonyms. Find this information in floras, monographs, checklists, revisions etc."
The currently accepted names
may have changed since the last update. The IPNI is nevertheless live, but any changes take time to verify so that is not always reflected for some time (as stated earlier). It's a sort of disclaimer when full research may not have been effected, or possible, so the reader is as much as told "if you want the latest and greatest then look for it yourself and don't blame us if it's wrong". Finding the correct information is as good as the literature available, no better, and an institution such as Kew will have a minefield of old literature from centuries ago, or access to much of it.
