CONGRESS ACTION, XIII IBC (1981)
Congres action on proposals-to-amend-the-Code
at the XIII IBC,
the 1981, Sydney Congress. Based on (by permission of the IAPT):
Werner Greuter,
“XIII
International Botanical Congress: mail vote
and final Congress action on nomenclatural proposals”
(in Taxon 30: 904-911. 1981).
But adjusted according to the
proceedings,
by Werner Greuter and
Edward G. Voss, in
Englera 2 (1982).
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See also:
•
conversion table
•
list of proposals
[ IMC² = on behalf of the second International Mycological Congress ]
| Synopsis | Proposal as submitted | Congress action | |
| Prin. IV - Prop. A | – 096 – Sp.C. autonyms | – no | |
| Art. 1 | – [sg. 1] – Strother | – not effected | |
| Art. 2 | – [sg. 2] – Strother | – not effected | |
| Art. 3 | – [sg. 3] – Strother | – ??? | |
| Art. 3 - Prop. A | – 010 – Bold & al. | – no | |
| Art. 3 - Prop. B | – 011 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 3 - Prop. C | – 036 – Meyen & Traverse | – no | c.fos.: ± |
| Art. 3 - Prop. D | – 037 – Boulter | – no | c.fos.: ± |
| Rec. 4A - Prop. A | – 043 – Rowley | – no | |
| Art. 6 - Prop. A | – 085 – C. Spermatophyta |
was accepted as amended (Greuter), to add, after
“a name which
...”, “according to this Code”.
| Art. 6 - Prop. B | – 138 – Eichler | – ed.c. | |
| Art. 6 - Prop. C | – 099 – Sp.C. autonyms | – withdrawn | |
| Art. 6 - Prop. D | – 100 – Greuter | – yes | |
| Art. 6 - Prop. E | – 101 – Greuter | – withdrawn | |
| Art. 7 - Prop. A | – 012 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 7 - Prop. B | – 051 – Silva | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 7 - Prop. C | – 053 – Silva | – no | |
| Art. 7 - Prop. D | – 194 – Parkinson | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 7 - Prop. E | – 114A – Sp.C. generic typif. | – no (mail vote) |
A proposal from the Committee for Fungi and Lichens,
introduced
from the floor (Korf),
in the context of Art. 13 and the newly-adopted
concept of sanctioned names,
was accepted:
“Typification
of such names is
based on the protologue of the
adopting author”.
| Rec. 7A - Prop. A | – 024 – IMC² | – no | c.fun.: + |
| Rec. 7B - Prop. A | – 149 – Stirton & al. | – ed.c. | |
| Rec. 7C - Prop. A | – 009[bis] – Lewin & Fogg | – no |
A motion from the floor (Brummitt, Meikle & McNeill)
was
accepted, that the portion after the semicolon in
Art. 8.1
shall read:
“it may also be
superseded if it can be shown that it is in serious
conflict with the protologue and another element is available
which is not in conflict with that,
or that it was made arbitrarily.”
| Art. 8 - Prop. A | – 122 – Leach | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 8 - Prop. B | – 148 – Stirton & al. | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 8 - Prop. C | – 150 – Stirton & al. | – ed.c. / sp.c. | |
| Art. 8 - Prop. D | – 151 – Stirton & al. | – ed.c. | |
| Art. 8 - Prop. E | – 152 – Stirton & al. | – ed.c. | |
| Art. 9 - Prop. A | – 025 – IMC² | – no | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 9 - Prop. B | – 026 – IMC² | – no | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 9 - Prop. C | – 027 – IMC² | – no | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 9 - Prop. D | – 044 – Rowley | – no | |
| Art. 9 - Prop. E | – 208 – Demoulin | – ed.c. | |
| Rec. 9A - Prop. A | – 028 – IMC² | – no | c.fun.: + |
| Rec. 9A - Prop. B | – 066 – Malyshev | – no (mail vote) | |
| Rec. 9B - Prop. A | – 029 – IMC² | c.fun.: + |
was accepted as amended (Walker, Demoulin, Gams, Veldkamp)
to read:
“Whenever practical
in addition to the non-living holotype, a
living culture prepared from the holotype specimen
before
preservation of newly proposed fungus or algal taxa
should
be deposited with a reputable culture collection.”
was accepted as
amended (Greuter), by the
insertion of
“for certain” before “fossil plants”.
| Art. 11 - Prop. B | – 124 – Johnson & al. | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 11 - Prop. C | – 125 – Johnson & al. | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 12 - Prop. A | – 102 – Greuter | – withdrawn | |
| Art. 13 - Prop. A | – 014 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 13 - Prop. B | – 031 – IMC² | – no | c.fun.: ? |
| Art. 13 - Prop. C | – 032 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: ? |
| Art. 13 - Prop. D | – 117 – Storch | c.fos.: ? |
was rejected and referred to the Committee for Fossil Plants.
| Art. 14 - Prop. A | – 147 – Brummitt & Meikle | – withdrawn | |
| Art. 14 - Prop. B | – 156 – Greuter & al. | – yes | |
| Art. 14 - Prop. C | – 192 – Parkinson | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 14 - Prop. D | – 205 – Greuter & McNeill |
was accepted as amended (Nicolson),
to add a sentence to
Art. 14.1:
“Conservation
of specific names is restricted to names of
species of major economic importance.”
A motion from the floor (Nicolson) was accepted,
to add at the end
of
Art. 14.3:
“except
for conserved family names (Appendix II) which are to
be conserved over unlisted names.”
A motion from the floor (Voss) was accepted,
to add at the end of
the first sentence of
Art. 14.9:
“... and changes. Entries of conserved names cannot be deleted.”
| Art. 16 - Prop. A | – 110 – Greuter | – no | |
| Rec. 16A - Prop. A | – 057 – Silva | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 17 - Prop. A | – 055 – Silva |
was accepted as amended by
deletion of the last sentence (Silva)
and addition in line 3 (Greuter), after the word
“family”, of:
“based on a generic name”.
was rejected, but
a motion from the floor (Demoulin and Korf)
was accepted, consisting of this Art. 19 Prop. C (087) with an
additional sentence:
“An autonym
will automatically acquire priority over the name
of equivalent rank which has established it."
| Art. 19 - Prop. D | – 089 – Greuter | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 19 - Prop. E | – 095 – Sp.C. autonyms | – no | |
| Art. 19.4 Note n. | – [sg. 4] – Reveal & Broome | – not effected | sp.c.: – |
| Art. 21 - Prop. A | – 070 – Filgueiras |
Prop. A and C were accepted as to intent,
the choice of wording
being left with the Editorial Committee.
was rejected and referred to the Editorial Committee
after
an amendment to delete the last sentence (Greuter) had been
withdrawn.
| Rec. 29A - Prop. [...] | – [sn-5] – Dahlgren & Friis |
was dealt with in two steps:
the first proposed paragraph
(“29A.1”) was rejected,
the second (“29A.2”) was accepted as
amended (Hnatiuk), by
deletion of
“as for example ... typewriter”.
| Art. 32 - Prop. A | – 038 – Meikle |
was accepted as
amended (Greuter) to maintain the existing
Art. 32.3,
but with deletion of the last ten words.
| Art. 32 - Prop. B | – 126 – Johnson & al. | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 32 - Prop. C | – 092 – Greuter | – ed.c. | |
| Art. 33 - Prop. A | – 047 – Rowley | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 33 - Prop. B | – 048 – Rowley | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 33 - Prop. C | – 049 – Rowley | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 33 - Prop. D | – 052 – Silva | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 34 - Prop. A | – 008 – Lowry & Jones | – withdrawn | |
| Art. 34 - Prop. B | – 016 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 34 - Prop. C | – 017 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 34 - Prop. D | – 018 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 34 - Prop. E | – [ not assigned ] | – [ not assigned ] | |
| Art. 34 - Prop. F | – 155 – Brummitt | – no | |
| Art. 34 - Prop. G | – 088 – Sp.C. autonyms | – no | |
| Art. 34 - Prop. H | – 098 – Sp.C. autonyms | – withdrawn | |
| Art. 34 - Prop. I | – 105 – Sp.C. autonyms | – yes | |
| Art. 35 - Prop. A | – 039 – Darwin | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 37 - Prop. A | – 201 – McNeill | – sp.c. | |
| Rec. 37B - Prop. A | – 030 – IMC² | – no (mail vote) | c.fun.: ? |
| Rec. 39A (new) | – [sn-3] – Norris & Townsend |
was accepted as
amended, replacing “an actual specimen” by
“actual specimens” (Fosberg),
followed not by “preferably the
holotype”, but by
“preferably including the holotype” (Yeo),
and on the understanding that it should apply only to the algae.
| Rec. 39B (new) | – [sn-4] – Norris & Townsend | – no | |
| Art. 41 - Prop. A | – 079 – C. Spermatophyta | – ed.c. |
A proposal from the floor (Meikle) was accepted, to add a new
paragraph :
“41.2
In order to be validly published,
a name of a family must
be accompanied (a)
by a description or diagnosis of the family,
or (b) by a reference (direct or indirect)
to a previously and
effectively published description or diagnosis
of a taxon in the
rank of family, subfamily, tribe or subtribe.”
(with an alternate text to Art. 13 Prop. C, Prop. 32)
was
accepted
in the form of a
recommendation after Art. 46, that,
in the citation of sanctioned names, a colon (“ : ”)
should be
placed between the orginating and the adopting authors’
names.
were both accepted as to intent,
the choice of wording being left
with the Editorial Committee.
| Art. 63 - Prop. D | – 193 – Parkinson | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 64 - Prop. A | – 139 – Eichler | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 64 - Prop. B | – 140 – Eichler | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 64 - Prop. C | – 197 – Parkinson | – sp.c. | |
| Art. 66 - Prop. A | – 106 – Sp.C. autonyms | – yes | |
| Art. 67 - Prop. A | – 023 – IMC² | – yes | c.fun.: + |
| Art. 67 - Prop. B | – 141 – Eichler | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 69 - Prop. A | – 116 – Veldkamp | – no (mail vote) | |
| Art. 69 - Prop. B | – 081 – C. Spermatophyta |
was accepted: the procedure in the present footnote to Art. 69,
inserted by the Editorial Committee, is officially sanctioned.
The Section reconfirmed a “lifeboat motion” (Faegri):
“In case
there shall not be another International Botanical Congress, the
authority over the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
must
be transferred to the International Union of Biological Sciences
through
its Division of Botany, or an organization at that time corresponding to it.
The general committee is empowered to define the machinery to achieve
this.”
IMC² = on behalf of the second International Mycological Congress
[sn-2-8] were submitted too late to be included in the Synopsis
Committees
Special committees (to report to the XIV IBC) to be set up:
•
Special Committee on Lectotypification (Art. 8, 72, Guide Types).
To it were referred (after having been rejected):
Art. 8 Prop. A, B (122 by Leach, 148 by Stirton & al.),
Art. 70 Prop. A (210 by Demoulin),
Art. 72 Prop. A (6 by Laundon),
Guide Types Prop. D (191 by Killick).
Also, not rejected,
but referred to the Editorial Committee:
Art. 8 Prop. C (150 by Stirton & al.).
•
Special Committee on Effective Publication (Art. 29).
To it were referred:
Art. 29 Prop. A-G (60-62 by McNeill, 63-64 by Brummitt,
65 by Brummitt & Hara, 67 by Hara & Eichler).
(of these, Art. 29 Prop. A, D-E, G had been rejected).
•
Special Committee on Valid Publication (Art. 33, 37).
To it were referred (after having been rejected):
Art. 33 Prop. A-C (47-49 by Rowley),
Art. 37 Prop. A (201 by McNeill).
•
Special Committee on Orthography
(Art. 64, Rec. 73B, 73C &
73G, Art. 75).
To it were referred (after having been rejected):
Art. 18 Prop. B-C (132-133 by Demoulin),
Art. 64 Prop. A-C (139-140 by Eichler, 197 by Parkinson)
Rec. 73B Prop. A (129 by Demoulin),
Rec. 73C Prop. A (50 by Rowley),
Rec. 73G Prop. A-B (134 by Demoulin, 144 by Eichler),
Art. 75 Prop. C
(76 by the Committee for Spermatophyta),
Art. 75 Prop. E, L (145 by Eichler,
198 by Parkinson).
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