Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ampelocalamus scandens
The nominator just claims without explanation that these  well-documented species are not notable. That is not a sufficient basis for deleting articles about species which are discussed in peer-reviewed articles such as "MA, Yu-dong, et al. "The Anatomical Characters of the Endemic and Critically Endangered Bamboo Species——Ampelocalamus scandens and Drepanostachyum luodianense in Guizhou Province." Journal of Mountain Agriculture and Biology 1 (2012): 004." You can find many such articles by clicking the "Scholar" button at the top of this AFD. Only if an article is about a species which lacks scholarly documentation, such as one claimed to exist by an unqualified hobbyist,or some crypto-bio  animal seen only in a grainy video is the article deleted, in general.  On the one extreme  discussing common outcomes of AFD says  "All species that have a correct name (botany) or valid name (zoology) are inherently notable. Their names and at least a brief description must have been published in a reliable academic publication to be recognized as correct or valid. Because of this, they generally survive AfD."   That means simply that there is a place for the information about the species in Wikipedia, not that a stand=alone article  is the appropriate way to cover it. And I do not agree with the circular logic of citing "common outcomes" as a formal notability guideline, which it is not. But it is a reality check as to the futility of trying to delete articles of a sort which never get deleted. At a more important level,   does not stipulate that every notable subject MUST have a standalone article. See OPAGE. There are subject-specific guidelines for music, books, sports, people and 17 other topics, but I see none for species. Merger into a more general article, where the topic receives an appropriate amount of coverage, is always a possibility but this is "Articles for DELETION," not "Articles for MERGER." If you want to merge articles about subspecies into a main article, then instead of AFD you should use the process described in detail at Wikipedia:Merging
— User:Edison, 19:15, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SPECIESOUTCOMES||WP:N||WP:NOPAGE (Wikipedia:Deletion policy)