CONGRESS ACTION, XVII IBC (2005)
Congres action on proposals-to-amend-the-Code
at the XVII IBC,
the 2005, second Vienna Congress.
Based on (by permission of
the IAPT):
John McNeill, Tod F. Stuessy, Nicholas J. Turland &
Elvira Hörandl
“XVII
International Botanical Congress:
preliminary mail vote
and report of Congress action on nomenclature proposals”
(in
Taxon 54: 1057-1064. 2005)
But updated here and there according to the
proceedings (2015) by
Christina Flann, John McNeill, Fred R. Barrie,
Dan H. Nicolson,
David L. Hawksworth, Nicholas J. Turland, and Anna M. Monro,
in
PhytoKeys 45.
Links mostly go to the relevant page of a PDF,
a local copy
(copyright IAPT
for the material from Taxon),
but some go to the
relevant website.
See also:
•
conversion table
•
list of proposals
| Synopsis | Proposal as submitted | Congress action | Comm. advice |
| Gen. prop. - Prop. A | – 219 – Silva | – yes | ||
| Gen. prop. - Prop. B | – 258 – Hawksworth | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Gen. prop. - Prop. C | – 259 – Hawksworth | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Gen. prop. - Prop. D | – 260 – Hawksworth | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Gen. prop. - Prop. E | – 055 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Gen. prop. - Prop. F | – 100 – Rijckevorsel | – no |
A motion from the floor (Skog), on Friday,
was accepted to add
at the end of Art 1.2 [see also
Art. 11.7,
below]:
“Any taxon
that is described as including more than one part,
life-history stage, or preservational state is not a morphotaxon.”
| Art. 3 - Prop. A | – 065 – Moore & al. | – yes | ||
| Art. 4 - Prop. A | – 246 – Sp.C. supragen. nam. | – no | ||
| Rec. 5A - Prop. A | – 240 – Kiesling & Metzing | – yes |
A motion from the floor (Wieringa), on Friday,
was accepted as
amended (K.Wilson, Turland),
readjusting the Rapporteur’s Note
to Art. 6.2 (added after
Art. 22 Prop. C had been rejected), the
Note to read:
“Note n.
Valid publication creates a name,
and sometimes also
an autonym (Art. 22.1 and 26.1),
but does not itself, for
nomenclatural purposes, imply any taxonomic circumscription
beyond inclusion of the type of the name(s) (Art. 7.1).”
| Art. 7 - Prop. A | – 261 – Brummitt | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 7 - Prop. B | – 262 – Brummitt | – yes | ||
| Art. 7 - Prop. C | – 218 – Silva | – yes |
A motion from the floor (Ghandi), on the final day,
to change
the term “type” in the first line of
Art. 7.11 to
“lecto-, neo-,
and epitype”
was referred to the Editorial Committee.
| Art. 8 - Prop. A | – 208 – Traverse & al. | – no | c.fos.: – | |
| Art. 8 - Prop. B | – 209 – Traverse & al. | – no (autom.) | c.fos.: – | |
| Rec. 8B - Prop. A | – 276 – NdF & RS | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. A | – 210 – Traverse & al. | – no (autom.) | c.fos.: – | |
| Art. 9 - Prop. B | – 263 – Brummitt | – no | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. C | – 068 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. D | – 069 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. E | – 070 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. F | – 071 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. G | – 072 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. H | – 073 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. N | – 074 – Mukherjee | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. I | – 075 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. J | – 076 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. K | – 077 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. L | – 078 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. M | – 079 – Mukherjee | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. O | – 080 – Mukherjee | – no | ||
| Art. 9 - Prop. P | – 277 – NdF & RS | – no (mail vote) |
A motion from the floor (Ghandi), on the final day,
to insert a
Note in
Art. 9
dealing with the usage of the terms
“isolectotype”,
“isoneotype”, and “isoepitype”
(for duplicate specimens of
these relevant types) was referred to the Editorial Committee.
Two motions from the floor
(Tronchet, respectively Gandhi),
on the final day, were rejected, to insert a Note in
Art. 9
defining the term “paralectotype”
(or possibly “lectoparatype”)
for the syntype residue
(after the selection of a lectotype).
| Rec. 9C - Prop. A | – 278 – NdF & RS | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 11 - Prop. A | – 059 – Moore & Clemants | |||
| Art. 11 - Prop. B | – 060 – Moore & Clemants |
were accepted as amended, as suggested by the Rapporteurs, to
insert the following
Note in Art. 11:
“Note n.
The provisions of Art. 11 determine priority between
different names applicable to the same taxon;
they do not
concern homonymy which is governed by Art. 53,
and which
establishes that later homonyms are illegitimate regardless of
whether the type is fossil or non-fossil.”
A motion from the floor (Skog), on Friday,
was accepted, to alter
“taxa” in
Art. 11.7
to
“morphotaxa”
[see also
Art. 1.2].
| Art. 13 - Prop. A | – 242 – Sp.C. supragen. nam. | – yes | ||
| Art. 13 - Prop. B | – 243 – Sp.C. supragen. nam. | – no (autom.) | ||
| Art. 13 - Prop. C | – 222 – Silva | – withdrawn | c.alg.: – | |
| Art. 14 - Prop. A | – 279 – Hawksworth | – no |
[an amendment (Brummitt) to extend conservation to “the
ranks
of family and below” also failed]
| Art. 14 - Prop. B | – 280 – Hawksworth | – withdrawn | ||
| Art. 14 - Prop. C | – 175 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 14 - Prop. D | – 176 – Rijckevorsel | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Rec. 14A - Prop. A | – 266 – Brummitt |
was accepted as amended, as suggested by the Rapporteurs,
the last phrase of
Rec. 14A.1 to read:
“...
authors should follow existing usage of names
as far as
possible pending the General Committee’s recommendation
on the proposal.”
A motion from the floor (Brummitt, McNeill, Wieringa,
Zijlstra)
was accepted, the first clause of
Art. 20.2
to read:
“The name
of a genus may not coincide
with a Latin technical
term in use in morphology at the time of publication unless ...”
| Rec. 20A - Prop. A | – 041 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Rec. 20A - Prop. B | – 042 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 21 - Prop. A | – 202 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Rec. 21B - Prop. A | – 043 – Rijckevorsel | – yes | ||
| Art. 22 - Prop. A | – 081 – Niederle | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 22 - Prop. B | – 082 – Niederle | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 22 - Prop. C | – 066 – Moore & al. | – no (see above) | ||
| Rec. 23A - Prop. A | – 044 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Rec. 23A - Prop. B | – 045 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Rec. 23A - Prop. C | – 046 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 24 - Prop. A | – 201 – Rijckevorsel | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 24 - Prop. B | – 203 – Rijckevorsel | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 26 - Prop. A | – 067 – Moore & al. | – ed.c. |
A motion from the floor (Wieringa), on Friday,
was accepted to
add a new Recommendation, to follow Art. 26:
“26Abis.n.
While publishing a name of an infraspecific taxon
that will also establish an autonym, the author should mention
this autonym in the publication.”
and the insertion of a similar
Recommendation to follow Art. 22
was referred to the Editorial Committee.
| Art. 29 - Prop. A | – 180 – Sp.C. electr. publ. | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 29 - Prop. B | – 181 – Sp.C. electr. publ. | – no (mail vote) |
The following motions from the floor were presented by K.Wilson
(on behalf of an ad hoc group on electronic publishing),
on the final
day:
a) accepted as amended (Redhead, Rijckevorsel, Norvell, Nee,
Dorr, Rijckevorsel, K.Wilson), the final clause of
Art. 29.1 to
read:
“...
or solely by any form of electronic distribution.”
b) referred to the Editorial Committee,
a Note to be added to
Art. 29:
“Note n.
Even if a name is published in a periodical with
parallel printed and electronic versions,
as effective
publication requires distribution of printed matter, this
establishes the date of effective publication.”
c) referred to the Editorial Committee, as amended (Stuessy),
a Note to be added on archiving by publishers.
d) referred to the Editorial Committee, as amended (Briggs,
K.Wilson, K.Wilson), a new Recommendation to follow
Art. 29:
“Rec. 29A.n.
For those
publishing nomenclatural novelties
in periodicals
(cf. Rec. 30A.2) that distribute a printed
version as well as a matching electronic version, the
features of such a periodical should be:
(i)
The printed and electronic versions should be identical
in content and pagination;
(ii) The electronic version should be in platformindependent
and printable format;
(iii)
The electronic version should be publicly available via
the World Wide Web or its successors;
(iv)
The presence of nomenclatural novelties should be
prominently indicated in the work (cf. Rec. 30A.3).”
e) referred to the Editorial Committee, as amended (Gams,
McNeill, Orchard), a new paragraph in the new Rec. 29A
or in Rec. 30A:
“29A.n.
To aid wide availability through time and place,
it is strongly recommended that printed copies of a
publication should be deposited in at least ten (10) but
preferably more botanical or other generally accessible
libraries that are spread widely around the world and that
should include one appropriate name-indexing centre.”
| Art. 29 - Prop. C | – 083 – Prado & Bicuda | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 29 - Prop. D | – 085 – Prado & Bicuda | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Rec. 29A - Prop. A | – 084 – Prado & Bicuda | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 30 - Prop. A | – 267 – Brummitt |
was accepted as amended, as suggested by the Rapporteurs, and
with the year changed to 1953 (Demoulin), the new paragraph
in Art. 30 to read:
“30.4bis.
Publication on or after 1 January 1953
of an
independent non-serial work stated to be a thesis submitted
to a university or other institute of education for the purpose
of obtaining a degree is not effectively published unless it
includes an explicit statement (referring to Art. 30) or other
internal evidence that it is regarded as an effective
publication by its author or publisher.”
A motion from the floor (Wieringa), on the final day,
was accepted
to add a Note to the new provision:
“Note n.
The presence of an ISBN or the name of a publisher is
regarded as internal evidence that the work was intended to be
effectively published.”
| Art. 32 - Prop. A | – 268 – Brummitt | – yes | ||
| Art. 32 - Prop. B | – 302 – Perry | – no | ||
| Art. 32 - Prop. C | – 303 – Perry | – no | ||
| Art. 32 - Prop. D | – 304 – Perry | – yes | ||
| Art. 32 - Prop. E | – 305 – Perry |
was accepted as amended (Printzen, McNeill),
to add
“purely aesthetic”.
On the final day, a motion from the
floor (Chaloner) was accepted, to add “geological age”.
Four successive motions from the floor
(the first three presented
by Redhead) to deal with illustrations as types for algae and fungi,
of which
the fourth (Hawksworth) was accepted as amended
(Demoulin, Buck, Watson, Buck, Landrum),
to add a new
paragraph to Art. 37, to read:
“37.4bis.
For the purpose of this Article,
the type of the name
of a new species or infraspecific taxon of microscopic algae
or microfungi may be an effectively published illustration
where there are technical difficulties of preservation
or it is
impossible to preserve either a meaningful type or part of the
original material.”
A further motion from the floor (Wieringa) was accepted as
amended (Atha, McNeill, Gandhi, Dorr, Norvell, Veldkamp) to
rephrase
Art. 37.4 as:
“37.4.
For the purpose of this Article, the type of the name of
a new species or infraspecific taxon (fossils excepted: see
Art. 8.5) may be either a specimen or only until 31 December
2006 an illustration. On or after 1 Jan 2007 the type must be
a specimen.”
| Art. 37 - Prop. D | – 211 – Traverse & al. | – no (autom.) | c.fos.: – | |
| Art. 37 - Prop. E | – 087 – Voss | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 37 - Prop. F | – 237 – Kiesling & Metzing | – no [ ] [ ] | ||
| Art. 38 - Prop. A | – 212 – Traverse & al. | – no (autom.) | c.fos.: – | |
| Art. 39 - Prop. A | – 003 – Rapini | – no | ||
| Art. 41 - Prop. A | – 256 – Moore & al. | – no | ||
| Art. 41 - Prop. B | – 257 – Rabeler & al. | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 45 - Prop. A | – 004 – Rapini |
was accepted as amended (Watson, Challis, Funk, McNeill),
to become a
Recommendation:
“45A.n.
A new name should be followed by a direct citation
including the term “novum” or its abbreviation (e.g., gen. nov.,
sp. nov., comb. nov.).”
| Art. 45 - Prop. B | – 217 – C. algae | – yes |
A motion from the floor (Demoulin,
on behalf of the Committee
for Fungi)
was accepted to, after the word “algae” in Art. 45.4,
add “or fungi” (twice).
Also adjust Ex. 6 (Hawksworth).
| Rec. 45A - Prop. A | – 238 – Kiesling & Metzing | – yes | ||
| Art. 46 - Prop. A | – 088 – Voss | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 46 - Prop. B | – 233 – Zijlstra & al. | – yes | ||
| Art. 46 - Prop. C | – 234 – Zijlstra & al. | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 46 - Prop. D | – 269 – Brummitt | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. 46 - Prop. E | – 063 – Zhu | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Art. 46 - Prop. F | – 064 – Turland | – yes | ||
| Art. 46 - Prop. G | – 221 – Silva | – no | c.alg.: – | |
| Rec. 46E - Prop. A | – 297 – Hawksworth | – no (mail vote) | ||
| Rec. 46E - Prop. B | – 298 – Hawksworth | – no (mail vote) |
A motion from the floor (Ahti) was accepted,
to add a Note
in
Art. 49:
“Note n.
Parenthetical authors must not be cited for
suprageneric names, because such names cannot have
basionyms as defined in Art. 49.1 (see also Art. 33.3).”
was accepted as amended (Redhead), as follows:
a) Add a new paragraph in Art. 59, to read:
“59.6bis.
Where a teleomorph has been discovered for a
fungus previously known only as an anamorph
and for
which there is no available name for the holomorph,
an
epitype exhibiting the teleomorph stage may be designated
for the hitherto anamorphic name even when there is no
hint of the teleomorph in the protologue of that name.”
“59.4.
Irrespective of priority, names with a teleomorphic
type or epitype (Art. 59.7) take precedence over names
only with an anamorphic type when the types are judged
to belong to the same holomorphic taxon. Priority of
competing teleomorphic typified or epitypified names
follows Principle III except that teleomorphic typified
names published before 1 January 2007 take precedence
over anamorphic typified names subsequently
epitypified after 1 January 2007 by teleomorphs.”
c)
In
Art. 59.1
after “typified” insert:
“or epitypified under
Art. 59.7”. And in
Art. 59.2
after “its type specimen”:
“or
its epitype specimen under Art. 59.7”;
and at the end:
“(see also
Art. 59.7)”.
[amendments
to include Henry des Abbayes (Ahti) and to replace
“corrected” in the last line by “standardized” (Perry) were
accepted as friendly amendments, but were left out of the vote]
[an amendment (Wieringa)
to delete
“or sometimes ae” from
Art. 60.6 was rejected]
[ ]
A motion from the floor (Fontella Pereira)
was accepted to add
a footnote to
Div.III.4(b)(2), to read:
“Prior
to each International Botanical Congress
any institution desiring to
vote in the coming Nomenclature Section
(and not listed as having been
allocated a vote in the previous Nomenclature Section)
should notify the
Bureau of Nomenclature of the IBC
of their wish to be allocated voting
rights and provide any relevant information regarding the level of
taxonomic activity in their institution.”
The proposal of the Committee for Pteridophyta
was accepted, to
transfer its functions to the present Committee for Spermatophyta,
renamed the Committee for Vascular Plants
(Div.III.2
to be
amended accordingly).
| Art. H.3 - Prop. A | – 241 – Govaerts | – no | ||
| Art. H.3 - Prop. B | – 264 – Brummitt | – ed.c. | ||
| Art. H.3 - Prop. C | – 265 – Brummitt | – ed.c. | ||
| Rec. H.3A - Prop. A | – 111 – Rijckevorsel | – yes |
[an amendment (David)
to recommend a space between the
multiplication sign and the name or epithet failed]
Abbreviations used
NdF & RS = Nicoletti de Fraga & Rezende Silva
Committees
Special Committees (to report to the XVIII IBC) to be set up:
• Special Committee on Electronic Publication (re-established).
•
Special Committee on the Nomenclature of Fungi
with a
Pleomorphic Life History
(newly established).
To it were referred:
Art. 59 Prop. A, C-E
(183, 185-187 by
Hawksworth).
•
on the harmonization of the nomenclature of blue-green
prokaryotes
(newly established).
As requested by the Committee for Pteridophyta,
its functions
were transferred to the present Committee for Spermatophyta,
renamed the Committee for Vascular Plants.
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