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charvolant committed Feb 18, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -42,10 +42,8 @@ The names file contains the following:
Some names in APNI have not yet been placed in the APC.
These orphan names are treated as inferred accepted taxa and placed under Plantae;
we at least know which kingdom they come from.
Names that have been placed in the APC are given a different dataset identifier to those names
that are only in APNI.

It is theoretically possible to use the higher taxonomy in the names data to provide placement
for APNI-only names and allow [merging](merging.md) to correctly link these names to parent taxa.
This is not currently done.
These are produced as a separate DwCA with a slightly different structure, containing
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family and genus names.
The name information generally contains genus and family.
[Merging](merging.md) can use this structural information to partially place the resulting names.

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