Procedures and timetable for proposals to amend Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, an
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Procedures and timetable for proposals to amend Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants Tom W. May1,2 Abstract Procedures for preparing and submitting proposals to amend or enhance Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants are provided. Such proposals will be considered by the Fungal Nomenclature Session of the XII International Mycological Congress to he held in Amsterdam in 2022. A timetable is laid out for the submission of proposals, due by 31 December 2021, their publication in IMA Fungus, the appearance of the ‘Synopsis of proposals” and the conduct of the pre-Congress guiding vote. Keywords: Fungal Nomenclature Bureau, Fungal Nomenclature Session, Governance, International Mycological Association, International Mycological Congress, San Juan Chapter F
INTRODUCTION In the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Code), the current edition of which is the Shenzhen Code (Turland et al. 2018), Chapter F brings together provisions specific to fungi. Material in Chapter F falls under the governance of the International Mycological Congress (IMC) (See Table 1). The Code specifies (Division (Div.) III, Provision (Prov.) 1.2, 8.1) that Chapter F may be modified only by action of a plenary session of an IMC on a resolution moved by the Fungal Nomenclature Session (FNS) of that Congress. The current Chapter F is the San Juan Chapter F, published on 27 December 2019 (May et al. 2019). It incorporates changes to the previous version of Chapter F that was part of the Shenzhen Code (Turland et al. 2018) in which a separate Chapter F was first introduced (Hawksworth et al. 2017). The changes were adopted on 21 July 2018 at Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia 2 Fungal Nomenclature Bureau, XII International Mycological Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
IMC11 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The next International Mycological Congress (IMC12) is scheduled to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in August 2022, with the Fungal Nomenclature Session occurring during the Congress. Procedures of the FNS are laid out in Div. III Prov. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 8 of the Code, and closely follow procedures of the Nomenclature Section of an International Botanical Congress (IBC) with the exception that there are no institutional votes at an IMC FNS. The Fungal Nomenclature Bureau (FNB) of an International Mycological Congress is responsible for running the FNS and the pre-Congress guiding vote. The FNB consists of various members including the Secretary, who is equivalent of the Rapporteur-général in the Bureau of Nomenclature of an IBC (May and Redhead 2018). Procedures for appointment of the officers of the FNB are set out in Div. III Prov. 4 and 8. The Secretary for each IMC is elected at the previous IMC. At IMC11 in San Juan, Tom W. May was elected Secretary of the FNB for IMC12 (May et al. 2018).
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