Proposals to amend the Code in Madrid & Maastricht 2024
The Nomenclature Section of the XX International Botanical Congress took place from Monday 15 July to Friday 19 July 2024. Each day had a morning session, from 08:30–13:00, and an afternoon session, from 14:30–19:00. Each session had a 30-minute break (10:30–11:00 and 16:30–17:00). The Friday afternoon session was shorter, from 14:00–14:50, without a break. All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
These sessions were broadcast live online, to allow observation of the proceedings (although physical presence was required for interactive commenting and voting). Online observers had to register in advance to access the livestream. This registration was independent of registration for the International Botanical Congress.
Registration for and access to the livestream was here: https://nomenclaturesectionxxibc.com/
There was no fee for this service.
Over the five days of the Nomenclature Section, a total of 219 unique users accessed the livestream at least once. The shortest total access time by any unique user was 2 minutes, the longest was 2564 minutes (42 hours and 44 minutes, i.e. comprising the whole duration of the Section), and the average was 313 minutes (5 hours and 13 minutes).
See also Livestreaming the Nomenclature Section at the XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid, 15–19 July 2024, which has been published in Taxon and can be freely accessed and downloaded.
Proposals to amend Chapter F of the Code
Chapter F of the Code contains provisions specific to the names of organisms treated as fungi.
Chapter F of the Code is amended through proposals published for consideration by the Fungal Nomenclature Session of an International Mycological Congress.
Further information on fungal nomenclature is provided on the website of the International Mycological Association (IMA).
The Nomenclature Session of the XII International Mycological Congress took place on Thursday 15 August 2024 in Maastricht, Netherlands. There were three sessions: 10:30–12:30, 12:45–13:45 (specifically to consider proposals to allow DNA sequences or genomes as types for fungi), and 14:40–16:30.
Proposals to amend Chapter F and a Synopsis of those proposals are published in IMA Fungus, and were made available here in advance of publication.
The Guiding Vote on proposals to amend Chapter F took place before the Congress and closed on 2 August 2024.
Any further formal proposals were made available via the IMA website.
The results of the proposals have been published in IMA Fungus:
May, T. W., Bensch, K., Groenewald, J. Z., Houbraken, J. & Rossman, A. Y. 2024. XII International Mycological Congress: report of Congress action on nomenclature proposals relating to fungi. IMA Fungus 15: article 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-024-00169-2