Hybrid genus name capitalization is automatically removed

I just added the hybrid genus × Comagaria for the cultivated ‘Pink Panda’ strawberries. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragaria_×_Comarum_hybrids for details. When I add the species as × Comagaria rosea, it is converted to × comagaria rosea. I had to resort to leaving off the × to avoid this. Is this a bug I should report, or is there a known solution?

This was supposed fixed when I added the feature request, because the original problem was curators couldn’t capitalize in the first place. Later I heard there was a bug going around but I believe genus hybrids that were fixed before the bug came about still as such.

This remains an issue. × phyllosasa tranquillans should render as × Phyllosasa tranquillans (or as ×Phyllosasa tranquillans if the space is omitted)

… and × haagespostoa climaxantha

Still not fixed :(

Maybe somewhat relatedly, there are a handful of taxa ranked as infrahybrid that include a genus name after the ×, with this probably having the most observations (other examples including these - 1 2 3), but it seems the fix allowing hybrids to have a capitalized 2nd genus name may have only applied to taxa ranked as hybrid (and genushybrid, unless that was already allowed?), not infrahybrid, since in all examples of the latter I could find the 2nd genus is still lowercase

another example https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/349781---chitalpa-tashkentensis

Just came across this here: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/566934
@tiwane Is there really no way to fix this?

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Same here:

This bug affects several other species :

Is there any way to fix it?

My proposal was that genus hybrids shouldn’t even require a manual ×, so you’d enter it as if it was a normal genus and the site would append it…

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And :

@tiwane ? Will it be fixed ? Or will we just keep adding misspellings and deviations ?

Sorry about that, I’ve made an issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3988

Another one :
× reyllopia conollyana

edit : another one :
× crataegosorbus miczurinii

edit : × hoodiapelia beukmanii

edit : × leia cabrerae

For what it’s worth, further examples aren’t really helpful at this point. There just needs to be a fix implemented. Since this is a bug that doesn’t affect core functionality, it’s lower priority than other ones.

It is just to keep track of the names that will need to be fixed.