Allow homepage taxon search to view homonyms (i.e., use the same taxon dropdown as in Checklists and Taxonomic Tree Viewer)

[themerekat]

The Taxon Search on this page: https://lichenportal.org/portal/

Should match the Taxon Search on this page: https://lichenportal.org/portal/taxa/taxonomy/taxonomydisplay.php

[egbot]

Since the lichen portal is the only one that has been entering illegal homonyms, we'll do this within the lichen portal code fork only.

[themerekat]

(I've entered illegal homonyms in other portals too 😅)

[egbot]

I recommend not adding illegal homonyms, since it not very usual, can interfere with expected search results, and leads to students incorrectly linking a specimen to the wrong homonym.

[themerekat]

I recommend not adding illegal homonyms, since it not very usual, can interfere with expected search results, and leads to students incorrectly linking a specimen to the wrong homonym.

Yes, but they exist in a lot of cases (see this recent conversation: BioKIC/symbiota-docs#574). We don't really have another way of handling them.

[egbot]

Issue resolved within Lichen Portal: bryo-lichen@fd87641