The five-day meeting of the Nomenclature Section of the XVII International Botanical Congress took place in Vienna, Australia in July 2005. This meeting is held every six years and it is where botanists, mycologists, and phycologists convene to amend theInternational Code of Botanical Nomenclature.This is the official report of the Vienna Nomenclature Section, recording in detail the debates that took place and the decisions that were made.
Preface 1
Seventeenth International Botanical Congress Vienna 2005 – Nomenclature section 5
First Session 5
General Proposals 11
Article 1 17
Article 3 18
Article 4 19
Recommendation 5A (new) 27
Article 6 27
Article 7 28
Article 8 31
Recommendation 8B 34
Second Session 35
Article 9 35
Recommendation 9C (new) 43
Article 11 43
Article 13 47
Article 14 52
Recommendation 14A 56
Article 16 57
Recommendation 16A 59
Article 18 62
Third Session 72
Article 18 (continued) 72
Article 19 74
Recommendation 19A 77
Recommendation 19B (new) 78
Article 20 78
Recommendation 20A 82
Article 21 82
Recommendation 21B 83
Article 22 84
Rapporteurs' Proposal 86
Recommendation 23A 87
Article 24 87
Article 26 87
Recommendation 26B (new) 87
Article 29 89
General Discussion on Electronic Publication 89
Recommendation 29A (new) 108
Article 30 108
Fourth Session 126
Article 32 126
Recommendation 32B 146
Recommendation 32F 146
Article 33 146
General Discussion on Misplaced Ranks Package of Proposals 158
Fifth Session 160
Article 33 (continued) 160
Article 34 163
Article 35 166
Article 36 166
Recommendation 36A 166
Article 37 166
Article 38 205
Article 39 205
Article 41 206
Article 45 08
Recommendation 45A 213
Article 46 214
Sixth Session 217
Article 46 (continued) 217
Recommendation 46E (new) 223
Article 49 223
Recommendation 50A & 50B 227
Recommendation 50B bis (new) 230
Recommendation 50C 230
Recommendation 50E 230
Recommendation 50F 231
Article 52 231
Article 53 231
Article 58 232
Article 59 234
Article 60 241
General Orthography discussion 246
Seventh Session 253
Article 60 (continued) 254
Recommendation 60B 268
Recommendation 60C 268
Recommendation 60D 273
Recommendation 60E 273
Recommendation 60F 273
Article 61 274
Article 62 275
Division III 276
Article H.3 288
Eighth Session 292
Article H.3 (continued) 292
Recommendation H.3A 294
Other Proposals 296
Ninth Session 298
Other Matters 298
Reports of the Special Committees 299
Report of the Nominating Committee 300
Tenth Session 305
Reports of the Permanent Committees 305
Other Business 319
Appendix A – Taxonomists who died since the XVI International Botanical Congress in St Louis in 1999 (or overlooked in previous lists) 321
Appendix B – Institutional votes 331
Appendix C – List of registered members of the Nomenclature Section 338