Heads up: there is 1 other draft taxon change with the same input taxa:
You should probably delete this taxon change, or at least figure out some kind of solution with the person / people who made the other change(s).
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Sorry if you see the prior message pop up, I added the wrong link so deleted and tried again. Do you get an error when you try it ?
Merging from species to subspecies is clearly possible (or at least has been in the past) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/44465
@bouteloua @loarie any ideas?
Or determine if those named children actually have to get assigned somewhere else, I dont know that they may not themselves be synonyms of a different ssp etc.
The one called Cleft Violet has an observation so that is the more critical one, the other has none, so it is in less danger of being a problem.
But the active children is your problem.
POWO shows that there is only one accepted intraspecific for V. palmata, which is V. palmata var. heterophylla. The cleft violet, Viola triloba var. dilatata, is not a synonym of this var. so you can merge the children of V. triloba before merging V. triloba with V. palmata palmata without causing problems.
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:868887-1#source-KB
@wdvanhem @cmcheatle @lappelbaum
I am moving this taxon change to here: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/110895
Please continue the discussion at this taxon change instead, as this one is no longer relevant.
V. triloba is still a synonym of V. palmata on POWO, but it has been updated to also synonymize the varieties. The only potential issue I've found so far is that my online (outdated) copy of Weakley synonymizes V. triloba var. dilatata with V. subsinuata.
@cmcheatle what's the best way to reconcile this? I don't just want to swap all V. trilobas with V. palmata at species level...