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IMA Fungus. 2013 Dec;4(2):381-443. doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.02.17. Epub 2013 Dec 18.

A without-prejudice list of generic names of fungi for protection under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.

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Paul M Kirk, Joost A Stalpers, Uwe Braun, Pedro W Crous, Karen Hansen, David L Hawksworth, Kevin D Hyde, Robert Lücking, Thorsten H Lumbsch, Amy Y Rossman, Keith A Seifert, Mark Stadler

Affiliations

  1. Mycology Section, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK;
  2. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  3. Martin-Luther-Universität, Institut für Biologie, Bereich Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten, Herbarium, Neuwerk 21, 06099 Halle (Saale), Germany.
  4. Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History (S), P.O. Box 50007, Svante Arrhenius väg 7, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
  5. Mycology Section, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK; ; Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza Ramón y Cajal, Madrid 28040, Spain; Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
  6. Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand.
  7. Science & Education, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
  8. Systematic Mycology & Microbiology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA.
  9. Biodiversity (Mycology), Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6 Canada.
  10. Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH, Dept. Microbial Drugs, Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.

PMID: 24563844 PMCID: PMC3905950 DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.02.17

Abstract

As a first step towards the production of a List of Protected Generic Names for Fungi, a without-prejudice list is presented here as a basis for future discussion and the production of a List for formal adoption. We include 6995 generic names out of the 17072 validly published names proposed for fungi and invite comments from all interested mycologists by 31 March 2014. The selection of names for inclusion takes note of recent major publications on different groups of fungi, and further the decisions reached so far by international working groups concerned with particular families or genera. Changes will be sought in the Code to provide for this and lists at other ranks to be protected against any competing unlisted names, and to permit the inclusion of names of lichen-forming fungi. A revised draft will be made available for further discussion at the 10(th) International Mycological Congress in Bangkok in August 2014. A schedule is suggested for the steps needed to produce a list for adoption by the International Botanical Congress in August 2017. This initiative provides mycologists with an opportunity to place nomenclature at the generic level on a more secure and stable base.

Keywords: Ascomycota; Basidiomycota; Chytridiomycota; Glomeromycota; Lichens; Myxomycota; Nomenclature; Oomycota; Protected List; Zygomycota

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