International Mycological Congress: Guiding Vote on nomenclature proposals to amend Chapter F of the International Code
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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, 100 Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia. Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]
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Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
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XI International Mycological Congress: Guiding Vote on nomenclature proposals to amend Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
Abstract: Results are provided for the Guiding Vote on the seven formal proposals to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants to be decided by the Fungal Nomenclature Session (FNS) of the XI International Mycological Congress in July 2018. The ballot for the Guiding Vote was provided online. There were 520 valid ballots, submitted by mycologists from 42 countries, belonging to 23 eligible groups and societies, along with authors of proposals. Two proposals F-005 and F-006, both concerning DNA sequences as types, exceeded the 75 % No vote that is the threshold above which proposals are considered rejected by the FNS unless formally re-introduced. Two options for amendments to future procedures for the Guiding Vote are proposed: adding eligibility via publication of a nomenclatural novelty among fungi and removing eligibility via membership of IMA MMOs. Key words: Author citations, DNA types, Governance, ICN, Nomenclature, Sanctioned names, Typification. Article info: Received 4 July 2018; Published 13 July 2018.
INTRODUCTION Seven formal proposals to amend Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants were published in April 2018 (Hawksworth 2018), followed by a Synopsis of proposals (May & Redhead 2018). These proposals will be considered at the Fungal Nomenclature Session (FNS) of the XI International Mycological Congress (IMC) to be held on Thursday 19 July 2018 in the plenary hall of the Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico. All persons registered for at least that day of the Congress are eligible to attend and vote in the FNS (each person eligible to attend has one vote, and there are no institutional votes). Prior to the Congress, as set out in the Shenzhen Code (Turland et al. 2018), a Guiding Vote is held to provide an indication of the views of mycologists on the formal proposals to amend the Code. This Guiding Vote follows the long-established procedure of a “mail vote” prior to each Nomenclature Section of an International Botanical Congress (IBC). Eligibility for the Guiding Vote of the IMC is set out in Provision 8 of Division III of the Code (Turland et al. 2018). Eligible voters include: (1) authors of proposals, (2) members of the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi (NCF), (3) members of the International Mycological Association (IMA), and of its Member Mycological Organizations (MMOs), and (4) members of any additional organizations nominated by the Fungal Nomenclature Bureau (FNB). This provision is a recent addition to the Code, proposed as a result of the deliberations of the Special Subcommittee on Governance of the
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