Forming Plural of Italicized Latin Word

[nq:1]If the genus and species of the plant Agapanthus campanulatus are italiicized, should the "-es" of the plural form "campanulatuses" also be italicized?. Thanks guys.[/nq]
Of course.

Reinhold (Rey) Aman, Philologist
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[nq:1]If the genus and species of the plant Agapanthus campanulatus are italiicized, should the "-es" of the plural form "campanulatuses" also be italicized?.[/nq]
In a context such as a scientific paper, you should avoid forming the plural at all: write something like "examples of Agapanthus campanulatus" or "Agapanthus campanulatus plants".

In an informal context, use -es if you lik

[nq:1]If the genus and species of the plant Agapanthus campanulatus are italiicized, should the "-es" of the plural form "campanulatuses" also be italicized?.[/nq]
I'm trying to imagine a case where you would want to use a plural form..g

[nq:2]If the genus and species of the plant Agapanthus campanulatus are italiicized, should the "-es" of the plural form "campanulatuses" also be italicized?.[/nq]
[nq:1]In a context such as a scientific paper, you should avoid forming the plural at all: write something like "examples of Agapanthus campanulatus" or "Agapanthus campanulatus plants".[/nq]
I agree. The plural looks very stran

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[nq:1]I don't know a great deal about this stuff, but I've learned one is not supposed to monkey around with the names. It's not merely Latin, it's a Latin-based system with carefully guarded rules.[/nq]
Exactly. Think of the scientific names of species as if they were book titles; you can make them plural informally if you wish it's a free world but nobody would do so in a formal,

Ross Howard filted:
[nq:1](1. WIWAL working in a record shop, such things as "We sold 10 Blonde on Blondes, 15 Hard Day's Nights, 20 Frampton Comes Alives and 30 Sticky Fingerses last week" could often be heard.)[/nq]
So, who's your favorite Flock of Seagull?...r

Mark Brader:
[nq:2]In a context such as a scientific paper, you should avoid forming the plural at all...[/nq]
Donna Richoux:
[nq:1]And since the scientific name resembles Noun-Adjective, maybe it's the first word that should be pluralized, if any, like attorneys-general... Nah, just avoid it.[/nq]
In Latin, adjectives are pluralized too. But in many cases the second word is a geni

[nq:2]If the genus and species of the plant Agapanthus campanulatus are italiicized, should the "-es" of the plural form "campanulatuses" also be italicized?.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm trying to imagine a case where you would want to use a plural form..g[/nq]
"The callunas were good this year, and so were the chrysanthemums; and we have the ericas to look forward to from December onwards; they overla

[nq:1]If the genus and species of the plant Agapanthus campanulatus are italiicized, should the "-es" of the plural form "campanulatuses" also be italicized?. Thanks guys.[/nq]
I think the best thing to do is write around it: "specimens of /Agapanthus campanulatus/" or something like that. Trying to make a plural of a genus-species is pretty much guaranteed to make your reader double-clutch.

[nq:1](1. WIWAL working in a record shop, such things as "We sold 10 Blonde on Blondes, 15 Hard Day's Nights, 20 Frampton Comes Alives and 30 Sticky Fingerses last week" could often be heard.)[/nq]
You must have been a pretty elderly lad when you left there's 12 years between the Beatles and Frampton.