We have a long-standing problem with the lichen species dictionaries in Recorder. The only up to date list is the one maintained by the BLS (the British Isles List of Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi), and all our data is held against this, but unfortunately the preferred dictionary in Recorder is the BMS Fungi and Lichen list which is now quite out of date. Problems with the synonymy in the links between these give us all sorts of strange results in the report wizard but we seem to be able to get round some of these by not expanding taxa. Why that should help is a bit of mystery as it presumably only expands down the hierarchy rather than up, so it shouldn't make any difference.

I don't see how synonymy can account for this problem though. We have three taxa shown separately in the species dictionary and included in the rucksack, but the report wizard is only picking up two of them. We have had similar problems before and have ended up writing our own reports to use the actual taxon name instead of the one imposed on us by Recorder, but with the volume of data requests that we get each week now that just isn't practical.

I'll have to take another look at the nameserver and at the way the report wizard handles taxon names, but this part of the system has left me baffled before and I'm afraid it will again!

Janet