For correcting plant names I use an internal/mental hierarchy, which is basically; spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, italics, and author (authority) abbreviation + (date) year [in forums I generally overlook italics, and authority/date].
Cultivars and hybrids are a little trickier, most often I find non-cultivars enclosed in single quotes (reserved for registered cultivars), or cultivars without genus (or genus abbreviation), or with double quotes, no punctuation, or incorrectly capitalized.
Most nomenclature issues I see with hybrids, involve missing the genus name or genus abbreviation, using an upper case "X" instead of a lower case "x", since the upper case "X" is reserved for use with multigeneric or intergeneric hybrids.
Fortunately a very rare error seen with hybrid formula, is where the formula is written, similar to this: Sarracenia flava x rubra x purpurea, leaving out the information necessary to understanding which parent or parents are which.
Standard form has been to list the maternal parent, first and the paternal parent, second. ICBN says that the parents can alternately be identified by male and female symbols, such as Pinguicula agnata
x Pinguicula moctezumae
.
Either way, if more than two parents are listed in a hybrid formula, algebraic-type formula symbols are used to group the parents, appropriately.
Cultivars and hybrids are a little trickier, most often I find non-cultivars enclosed in single quotes (reserved for registered cultivars), or cultivars without genus (or genus abbreviation), or with double quotes, no punctuation, or incorrectly capitalized.
Most nomenclature issues I see with hybrids, involve missing the genus name or genus abbreviation, using an upper case "X" instead of a lower case "x", since the upper case "X" is reserved for use with multigeneric or intergeneric hybrids.
Fortunately a very rare error seen with hybrid formula, is where the formula is written, similar to this: Sarracenia flava x rubra x purpurea, leaving out the information necessary to understanding which parent or parents are which.
Standard form has been to list the maternal parent, first and the paternal parent, second. ICBN says that the parents can alternately be identified by male and female symbols, such as Pinguicula agnata
Either way, if more than two parents are listed in a hybrid formula, algebraic-type formula symbols are used to group the parents, appropriately.