that anywhere the (subgenus _______) convention is used, the site interprets everything in parentheses as part of the author’s name. Go to ‘Edit Name’ on any subgenus-containing taxon and you’ll see it listed in the ‘Author’ field, every time. I’m suddenly wondering if this has any collateral impacts elsewhere on the site.

There also appears to be no standardization of usage between the terms subgenus, section and subsection. It might be worthwhile to flesh out when and where each term is best applied.

EDIT: creating a name with parentheses in the name yields the error: Name is invalid for the rank [insert rank]. sounds like a site fix to add to the pile…