And, as botanist Huang Juei-hsiang (now director of the Office of Agriculture of the Taipei Municipal Government) notes, the name Formosa is only used in the academic names of those plants that are especially beautiful or which originated in Taiwan.
專研植物的台北市政府建設局農業科科長黃瑞祥指出，在植物分類學上，以 FORMOSA 命名的植物只有兩種解釋，一是指台灣原生種，或表示形態美麗可人。