Plant Taxa in ranks above genus
leftwood
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Full StoryI 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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