Plant species, subspecies and hybrid names should be displayed as described in Plant, algae and fungi names – for example:
Triticum spp. cotton almonds
Salix aurita L. × S. caprea L.
See Plant cultivars and breeding material for how to present cultivar names.
Did you know? In Australia, sweetpotato – also know as yam or kumara – is 1 word (not sweet potato) to distinguish this root vegetable from potato. Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) belongs to the family Convolvulaceae and is a storage root (an enlarged root). Potato (Solanum tuberosum), on the other hand, belongs to the family Solanaceae and is a tuber (a swollen underground stem or shoot). Australian Sweetpotato Growers Inc has further information about sweetpotato.
