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Plant Taxa in ranks above genus

leftwood
15 years ago

I can't seem to find anything concrete on this subject, in the ICBN or anywhere. But from what I gather:

1)Higher ranking taxa (above genus) are capitalized and italicized, unless:

2)they are preceded by the rank name, in which case they are capitalized but not italicized.

Examples:

Papaveraceae or Family Papaveraceae

Papaverales or Order Papaverales

Is this correct?

But sometimes I see higher taxa in all caps too, like PTERIDOPHYTA, as well as my preceding examples. How does this fit in?

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