Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: all URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Description of need: iNaturalist’s backbone supports hybrids (between species, genera and subspecies) but no harmonized way of adding the hybrid formula currently exists. Hybrid formulae are…

I believe there is such a hybrid formula lexicon as this now, so should this be closed?

this would be highly desirable – indeed the way iNaturalist handles infraspecies in general seems forever animal-centric and deeply clumsy with regards to varieties, formae, etc. – but I really wonder how much willpower there might be to actually implement this…

I agree that this would be highly desirable, at least in plants. Sometimes the hybrid names (ex: Populus × rouleauiana) are quite cryptic and it is hard even for specialists to remember which species are the parent of this hybrid. There is currently nowhere in the taxon or taxonomy page where this i…

To add my one cent, I think the hybrid formulae should include the complete genus name for both parents, this reduces ambiguity. (ex: Salix brachycarpa var. psammophila × Salix turnorii instead of Salix brachycarpa var. psammophila × turnorii)

There are two for some reason. “Hybrid formula” and “Hybrid formulae”.

I’m not sure why we get to add hybrid formulae without being curators, but not other scientific names. And I disagree that they are not unaccepted scientific names, they kind of are. I do think that everyone should be able to add unaccepted scientific names. If people add incorrect ones, I don’t re…

I agree, for organisms under the ICN like plants. ICN requires this. However, for birds, we should do it the way Clements does, which is not like this. Except of course that we should use “×” rather than “x”. ICZN does not have rules about this.

I was going to make a similar feature request! Hybrid formulae should really be displayed alongside scientific names

[image] nschwab: Another advantage would be the possibility to add the hybrid formula under the name in case of a named hybrid. I was going to make a similar request on behalf of Quercus, but it’s obviously broadly applicable. The casual user doesn’t click on the species pages so much, and e…

I second this request. I find hybrid oaks all the time, and have an idea of their parents, but have no way to select an id because the names and descriptions often don’t list the species parents. For example, Jolon oak, Quercus × jolonensis. A hybrid of Q douglasii and lobata, but there is no way to…

Add a “Hybrid formula” lexicon

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cyanfox November 4, 2024, 9:47am 6

This sounds pretty similar to my feature request. It’s not a duplicate though.

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