Formation of Botanical name

Botanical name may be called as the individual Latin name given for each and every plant depending on the worldwide categorization structure known as the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

Usually, botanical name may be framed by making use of the genus of plant as well as the species. Further, the foremost alphabet is the capitalized genus and the remaining name is given in italics.

To name some, Echinacea forms to be the genus, though, there are 9 kinds of species, 2 among them are well- known variety of Echinacea regarding the herbal medicine and they are purpurea and angustifolia. The botanical terms for them are Echinacea purpurea and Echinacea angustifolia.

The reason for giving botanical names for plants is to avail worldwide single name to have easy identification.