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Originally Posted by solay  Don't know when to use lower case and when to use capital letters. |
It's super simple:
1) The
genus is
always capitalized, always.
2) The
species name (specific ephitet) is
always lower case, always.
3) The
grex (hybrid name that replaces the species name in hybried) is
always capitalized, always.
Quote:
Originally Posted by solay I don't always know what's a species and what's a hybrid. Hee! Hee! Hee! |
This is super simple too:
1) The
grex names (hybrid names) are (almost)
always in modern English (only a few exceptions apply to this rule as a handful of very old hybrids have latinized names - one example of an old hybrid that has a latinized name is Phrag Sedenii - there aren't bery many of these though).
2)
Species names (specific epithet) are
always Latinized, always.
EXAMPLES:
PAPHHIOPEDILUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM - Looking at the first name first we know this is a genus (generic ephitet) and we know that all genus are capotalized. The second mane, rothschildianum, is Latinized so this is a species name which is not capitalized. The correct capitalization of this name then is:
Paphiopedilum rothschildianum.
GUARITONIA WHY NOT - to begin with the genus name is a combination of Guarianthe and Broughtonia so already we know it is a hybrid so we need look no further, the whole name will be capitalized like this:
Guaritonia Why Not.
Questions?