What is the scientific name of plant?

Question

What is the scientific name of plant?

Answer 1

A scientific name is the name given by a botanist after proper identification of the plant by studying its morphological features in detail. The name so given is called as  binomial nomenclature means there is a generic name called as Genus name and then a specific name called as species name. The rule says that the first letter of the  generic name should be written in capital letter and the secies name should be written in small letters.  If the name is hand written then it should be underlined and if it is printed it should be in Italics.

Curcuma is a generic name and longa is the species name. Curcuma longa is turmeric. There can be many species in one genus eg. Curcuma amada, Curcuma zedoria etc.  

Answer 2

To find the scientific names for plants, it will base on the genus and specie.

In your question, what kind of plant were you're up to? You should identify first what kind of plant you needed to name. Naming plants depend on its kind.

Answer 3

The scientific name of a plant(or any organism) represents binomial nomenclature.  Binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming specific species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system. The essence of it is that each species name is in (modern scientific) Latin and has two parts, so that it is popularly known as the "Latin name" of the species, although this terminology is frowned upon by biologists and philologists, who prefer the phrase scientific name.

The genus name and specific descriptor may come from any source. Often they are ordinary New Latin words, but they may also come from Ancient Greek, from a place, from a person (preferably a naturalist), a name from the local language, etc. In fact, taxonomists come up with specific descriptors from a variety of sources, including inside-jokes and puns.

However, names are always treated grammatically as if they were a Latin phrase.

There is a list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names.

Family names are often derived from a common genus within the family.

The genus name must be unique inside each kingdom. It is normally a noun in its Latin grammar.

The specific descriptor is also a Latin word but it can be grammatically any of various forms including these:

another noun nominative form in apposition with the genus; the words do not necessarily agree in gender. For example, the lion Panthera leo.

a noun genitive form made up from a person's surname, as in the Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii, the shrub Magnolia hodgsonii, or the Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni. Here, the person named is not necessarily (if ever) the person who names the species; for example Anthus hodgsoni was named by Charles Wallace Richmond, not by Hodgson.

a noun genitive form made up from a place name, as with Latimeria chalumnae ("of Chalumna").

the common noun genitive form (singular or plural) as in the bacterium Escherichia coli. This is common in parasites, as in Xenos vesparum where vesparum simply means "of the wasps".

an ordinary Latin or New Latin adjective, as in the house sparrow Passer domesticus where domesticus (= "domestic") simply means "associated with the house" (or "... with houses").

Specific descriptors are commonly reused (as is shown by examples of hodgsonii above).

Answer 4

the genus then the species.  for example:  Quercus alba  = White Oak.  all oaks are in the quercus genera, and alba means white.  common names can be confusing, so the scientific name is specific.  it is called binomial nomenclature