Search an infrageneric name in a flora list (given a genus ArangoDocument)

This function searches for a given infrageneric.name in florula.collection, constraining the search to a given genus and allowing the user to select which attributes to search in.

Usage

search_infrageneric(
  infrageneric.name,
  x.genus,
  attributes.to.search = c("epithet", "subspecies", "variety", "form"),
  florula.collection
)

Arguments

infrageneric.name

A character with an infrageneric Latin name to search within a given genus.

x.genus

An ArangoDocument corresponding to the genus rank in florula.collection, to which the search should be constrained.

attributes.to.search

A character vector with the attributes to search in (any of 'epithet', 'subspecies', 'variety' and 'form').

florula.collection

An ArangoCollection containing a flora list.

Value

A list with the ArangoDocument's in the florula.collection from which infrageneric Latin names match the given infrageneric.name in the attributes.to.search. The function returns a list of length 0 if no match is found.

Details

The given infrageneric.name is searched separately in each of the given attributes (one by one), for all ArangoDocument's that (directly or indirectly) point at the given genus (x.genus) and the results are collected in a list.

Author

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