Huh, last I looked somewhere I'm pretty sure indica was considered a subspecies, not a distinct species. Thanks for the update or correction, either or.

Oh wait no I should've known, it's something we're still pretty much arguing over. That is whether sativa and indica (and ruderalis) are both suspecies, or whether they're all their own species in the same family.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4604179/#:~:text=Cannabis%20is%20often%20divided%20into,often%20has%20a%20few%20branches.

And dog breeds are still (at least in the vast majority) not even different subspecies, just different breed (variants of the same species)

Indica is technically "cannabis sativa indica" and then a strain would technically be written fully as "C. sativa var indica, 'Indian Kush'" or "C. sativa indica, var 'Northern Lights'" or something to that effect. But also sativa would be like "C. sativa sativa, var. 'Durban Poison'"

This is all up for debate, I'm not saying there's consensus on what is or isn't correct. Just inputting a lil content to Lemmy