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=== Monospecific genera ===
Another special case is where the article is about a genus with only one species. The article will be at the genus name, but the final taxon to be displayed in the taxobox should be the species. An example is ''[[Aphyllanthes]]'', with the sole species ''Aphyllanthes monspeliensis''.

{{tj|Speciesbox 
 |taxon : Aphyllanthes monspeliensis 
 |parent_authority : L. ''--authority for genus''
 |authority : L. ''--authority for binomial (i.e. the species)''
 |... ''--other optional parameters''
}} 

The use of the Speciesbox template with the <code>taxon</code> parameter set to the species name ensures that the taxobox ends with the binomial name even though the page title is the genus name. The mediawiki software automatically replaces the generated wikilink [[Aphyllanthes]] by bold text since it goes to the same page. In this case we want to display the authority for both the species and the genus, since there is no other article. The parameters <code>parent_authority</code>, <code>grandparent_authority</code>, etc. are the way to display authorities up the classification hierarchy.