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Species matches to name flagged "doubtful" in spite of exact match #129

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@larsgw

gnverifier -s 11 -M "Poa trivialis L." returns the following:

Kind SortScore MatchType EditDistance ScientificName MatchedName MatchedCanonical TaxonId CurrentName Synonym DataSourceId DataSourceTitle ClassificationPath Error
BestMatch 9.42191 Exact 0 Poa trivialis L. Poa trivialis Leers, 1775 Poa trivialis 2704266 Poa trivialis Leers, 1775 false 11 GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Plantae|Tracheophyta|Liliopsida|Poales|Poaceae|Poa|Poa trivialis
SortedMatch 9.42191 Exact 0 Poa trivialis L. Poa trivialis L. Poa trivialis 8300875 Poa trivialis L. false 11 GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Plantae|Tracheophyta|Liliopsida|Poales|Poaceae|Poa|Poa trivialis
SortedMatch 9.40790 Exact 0 Poa trivialis L. Poa trivialis Guss., 1827 Poa trivialis 7428201 Poa trivialis Guss., 1827 false 11 GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Plantae|Tracheophyta|Liliopsida|Poales|Poaceae|Poa|Poa trivialis
SortedMatch 9.40790 Exact 0 Poa trivialis L. Poa trivialis Pollich, 1776 Poa trivialis 7846406 Poa trivialis Pollich, 1776 false 11 GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Plantae|Tracheophyta|Liliopsida|Poales|Poaceae|Poa|Poa trivialis

The correct result should be Poa trivialis L. (the second one). The first result, Poa trivialis Leers, 1775 is flagged as doubtful. I feel like regardless, Poa trivialis L. should get some points for having an exact match in the authorship. I understand how that might cause issues with incomplete/erroneous taxon records on GBIF though, so I am not sure of the best way to fix this.

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