Prune taxon to a user-defined rank

To a user-defined rank level, this function returns the ArangoDocument with the lowest rank existing in florula.collection selecting from all the parent taxa of a given taxon and the given taxon itself.

Usage

prune_taxon_to_rank(x, rank, florula.collection)

Arguments

x

An ArangoDocument corresponding to a taxon in a flora list.

rank

A character with the rank level to prune to.

florula.collection

An ArangoCollection containing a flora list.

Value

An ArangoDocument corresponding to the user-defined rank (if present) or the lowest rank existing in florula.collection.

Details

The given ArangoDocument is expected to come from a flora list where all documents must have one (and only one) of these attributes: "genus", "epithet", "subspecies", "variety", "form".

Author

Tiago Monteiro-Henriques. E-mail: tmh.dev@icloud.com.