TAXON 65 (3) • June 2016: 661–664 Special Committee on By-laws • (286) Div. III (286) Proposal to replace Division III of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants Special Committee on By-laws for the Nomenclature Section Members of the Special Committee: Sandra Knapp (Secretary),1 Nicholas J. Turland (Convener),2 Mary E. Barkworth,3 Fred R. Barrie,4 Renée H. Fortunato,5 Kanchi Gandhi,6 Roy E. Gereau,7 Werner Greuter,8 Patrick S. Herendeen,9 Leslie R. Landrum,10 David J. Mabberley,11 Karol Marhold,12 Tom W. May,13 Gerry Moore,14 Lourdes Rico Arce,15 Gideon F. Smith,16 Kevin Thiele17 & Li Zhang18 1 Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K. 2 Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 6–8, 14195 Berlin, Germany 3 Intermountain Herbarium, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-5305, U.S.A. 4 Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.A.; Department of Science and Education, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605 U.S.A. 5 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaría (INTA) and CONICET, Instituto de Recursos Biológicos, Nicolás Repetto y De Los Reseros s/n, Hurlingham 1686, Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A. 7 Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.A. 8 Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 6–8, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Orto botanico di Palermo, Via Lincoln 2, Palermo PA, Italy 9 Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois 60022, U.S.A. 10 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-4501, U.S.A. 11 Wadham College, University of Oxford, U.K.; Universiteit Leiden and Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, and National Herbarium of New South Wales, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney 2000, Australia 12 Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 23 Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, 128 01 Praha 2, Czech Republic 13 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, 100 Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia 14 National Plant Data Team, East National Technology Support Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 2901 East Gate City Blvd., Greensboro, North Carolina 27401, U.S.A. 15 Africa & Madagascar Team, SC ID and Naming, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, U.K. 16 Department of Botany, P.O. Box 77000, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa; Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001-455 Coimbra, Portugal 17 Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Western Australia 6983, Australia; School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia 18 Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, 160 Xianhu Rd., Liantang, Luohu, Shenzhen 518004, Guangdong, P.R. China Author for correspondence: Sandra Knapp, [email protected] DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/653.41 At the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne doubt devise a numbering system that both facilitates citation and in 2011 a Special Committee on By-laws for the Nomenclature Sec- avoids confusion. tion was established with the mandate “To formalise the procedures by which changes to the Code are considered and voted upon by (286) Replace Division III of the Code with the following new the Nomenclature Section”. The Committee’s extensive discussions version: have resulted in the following proposal to replace in the Melbourne Code (McNeill & al. in Regnum Veg. 154. 2012) the current Division DIVISION III. III (Provisions for the governance of the Code) with the following PROVISIONS FOR GOVERNANCE OF THE CODE revised Division III. The Committee approves the following proposal unanimously (all 18 members in favour). This proposal is accompanied 1. General provisions for governance of the Code and explained by the Report of the Special Committee (Knapp & al. in Taxon 65: 665–669. 2016), and the two documents should be read 1.1. The International code of nomenclature for algae, fungi, and alongside each other. In the interests of clarity and transparency, the plants is governed by its users, who are represented by members of a results of the Committee’s separate votes after discussion of each Nomenclature Section of an International Botanical Congress acting proposed Article are presented in Tables 1 and 2 of the Report. The under the authority of that Congress and, between such Congresses, numbering of Articles and Recommendations below is provisional. by the Permanent Nomenclature Committees and any Special-purpose Should the proposal be accepted, the Editorial Committee will no Committees. Version of Record 661 Special Committee on By-laws • (286) Div. III TAXON 65 (3) • June 2016: 661–664 1.2. The Code may be modified only by action of a plenary ses- Congress and allocates to each institution 1–7 votes (see 5.9(2)). The sion of an International Botanical Congress on a resolution moved list must be approved by the General Committee and published (see by the Nomenclature Section of that Congress. 1.4) prior to the Congress. No single institution, even in the wide 1.3. In the event that there should not be another International sense of the term (e.g. mycological and botanical divisions together), Botanical Congress, authority for the International code of nomen- is entitled to more than 7 votes. clature for algae, fungi, and plants shall be transferred to the Inter- 3.2. Prior to an International Botanical Congress, any institution national Union of Biological Sciences or to an organization at that desiring to vote in the Nomenclature Section and not listed as hav- time corresponding to it. The General Committee is empowered to ing been allocated any votes in the previous Nomenclature Section define the machinery to achieve this. should notify the Rapporteur-général of its wish to be allocated one 1.4. The Code is provided with logistical and financial support or more votes and provide relevant information regarding its level of by the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), which taxonomic activity (e.g. number of active staff, size of collections, liaises with the Permanent Nomenclature Committees and the Bureau current publications). An institution allocated one or more votes in of Nomenclature. The nomenclatural publications1 required by Div. the previous Nomenclature Section and desiring to alter its number III are published as specified by the General Committee (currently of votes may similarly notify the Rapporteur-général. in the journal Taxon). 3.3. An institution wishing to exercise its vote(s), as allocated in 1 [ footnote to 1.4] The nomenclatural publications required by the published list (3.1), must provide its official written authorization Div. III include proposals to conserve and reject names or suppress to be presented at the Nomenclature Section by its delegate (5.9(2)). works, requests for decisions, reports of Permanent Nomenclature 3.4. A delegate who is a member of an institution that has not Committees and Special-purpose Committees, proposals to amend previously applied for, or been allocated, votes may apply in person the Code and a synopsis of these proposals, notices of institutional for one institutional vote at the Nomenclature Section. votes, and the results of the preliminary guiding vote and Congress- approved decisions and elections of the Nomenclature Section. 4. Nomenclature Section 2. Proposals to amend the Code 4.1. The Nomenclature Section is part of an International Botani- cal Congress and meets prior to a plenary session of the Congress. 2.1. Proposals concerning the Preamble, Div. I–III, App. I, and 4.2. Registration for the Nomenclature Section is through the the Glossary are submitted by publication (see 1.4) to the Nomencla- International Botanical Congress. Only registered members of the ture Section of an International Botanical Congress. Nomenclature Section are entitled to vote at the Nomenclature 2.2. Proposals concerning App. II–VIII, i.e. proposals to con- Section. serve or reject names (Art. 14.12, 14.13, 56.2, and 56.3), proposals to 4.3. The Nomenclature Section has the following functions: suppress works (Art. 34.1), and requests for decisions (Art. 38.4 and (1) approves the previous Code as published as a basis for discus- 53.5), are submitted by publication (see 1.4) to the General Com- sion by the Section; mittee. (2) decides on proposals to amend the Code; 2.3. At least three years prior to an International Botanical Con- (3) appoints ad hoc committees to consider specific questions gress, the Rapporteur-général publishes an announcement that pro- and report back to the Section; posals to amend the Code may be published between specified dates. (4) authorizes Special-purpose Committees, with a specific man- 2.4. Approximately six months prior to an International Botanical date, to be appointed by the General Committee and report Congress, a synopsis of proposals to amend the Code is published. It back to the Nomenclature Section of the next Congress; is compiled by the Rapporteur-général and Vice-rapporteur, includes (5) elects the ordinary members of the Permanent Nomenclature their comments on the proposals, and may include opinions of the Committees; specialist committees on certain proposals. (6) elects the Rapporteur-général for the next Congress; 2.5. A guiding vote on proposals to amend the Code is organized (7) receives the reports of the Permanent Nomenclature Com- by the Bureau of Nomenclature in conjunction with the Interna- mittees and Special-purpose Committees; tional Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) to coincide with (8) decides on the recommendations of the General Committee.