From: "Paul Murray" pmurray@bigpond.com Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 1:20 AM
A somewhat cheeky alternative would be to separate them with a unicode zero-width space. In principle, anything scanning the text of the page should understand that the character is whitespace and begins a new word.
*** If this works (that is, anything scanning the text of the page does understand that the character is whitespace) then this is perfectly in keeping with the ICBN. The multiplication sign is not part of the name.
"H.3A.1. The multiplication sign ×, indicating the hybrid nature of a taxon, should be placed so as to express that it belongs with the name or epithet but is not actually part of it. [...] should depend on what best serves readability."
Paul