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. …

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

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 applie…

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?

Same here: × hesperotropsis leylandii × hesperotropsis notabilis × hesperotropsis ovensii

This bug affects several other species : × astrolista bicarinata × bacurio delphinatifolius × butyagrus nabonnandii ×agropogon lutosus ×amelasorbus jackii ×carpophyma pallidum ×dupoa labradorica 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…

Hybrid genus name capitalization is automatically removed

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mrtnlowr August 16, 2021, 2:53pm 5

Still not fixed :(

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Hybrid genus name capitalization is automatically removed

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