Amateur Taxonomist Needs to Know

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• To: lindsey
• Subject: Amateur Taxonomist Needs to Know
• From: D* B* <b*@mobot.org>
• Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:50:26 -0600

When is it appropriate to capitalize the species name in the scientific 
name of a plant?  I was just looking at a particular list of species and 
found, for example:

ANTHURIUM candidum Bull
ANTHURIUM Candolleanum Sodiro

Until now I have always seen the species name not capitalized.  But here 
we have both upper and lower cases.  I hope I am not fueling a debate 
here, but certainly there must be a standard to follow.  I am working on 
a prototype Anthurium web page, so I want to be certain it written in a 
manner acceptable to the scientific community.

Don

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