Amateur Taxonomist Needs to Know

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1997.01.21 at 01:50:26(196) 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: +More 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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