Key:genus

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Description
The scientific name of the genus for a living or fossil organism. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: natural
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Documented values: 1
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Status: approvedPage for proposal

The scientific name of the genus for a living or fossil organism. The  genus is a low-level taxonomic rank: the first part of the so-called scientific name (latin). This tag should be used in combination with natural=tree, natural=wetland or similar. It may also be appropriate to use it with natural=wood or landuse=forest.

It appears that most mappers write the genus value with a capital letter, e.g. Quercus or Picea. This follows the scientific convention for writing genus names.

Translated names of the genus=* tag are also in use, for example genus:de=* and genus:en=*.

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