Nomenclature Committee for Fungi

A permanent Nomenclature Committee for Fungi is installed by the International Botanical Congress under the auspices of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy. Its task is to discuss and vote on proposals concerning conservation/rejection of fungal names, as well as consider proposals to modify the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature with respect to fungal names. This important function confers a degree of stability upon fungal names.

The Nomenclature Committee for Fungi (CF) has at present 14 members:
•   Dr J. Leland Crane (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA)
LeeCrane@inhs.uiuc.edu
•   Dr. Vincent Demoulin, Chairman (Liege, Belgium)
V.Demoulin@ulg.ac.be
•   Dr. David L. Hawksworth (Ashstead, UK & Madrid, Spain)
d.hawksworth@nhm.ac.uk
•   Dr. Teresa Iturriaga (Caracas, Venezuela)
teresaiturriaga@yahoo.com
•   Dr. Paul M. Kirk (Egham, UK)
p.kirk@cabi.org
•   Dr. Pei-Gui Liu (Kunming, Yunnan, China)
pgliu@mail.kib.ac.cn
•   Dr. Thomas May (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Tom.May@rbg.vic.gov.au
•   Dr. Jacques Melot (Reykjavik, Iceland)
jacques.melot@isholf.is
•   Dr. Lorelei L. Norvell, Secretary (Portland, OR, USA)
llnorvell@pnw-ms.com
•   Dr. Shaun R. Pennycook (Auckland, New Zealand)
PennycookS@LandcareResearch.co.nz
•   Dr. Christian Printzen (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
christian.printzen@senckenberg.de
•   Dr. Scott A. Redhead (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
scott.redhead@agr.gc.ca
•   Svengunnar Ryman (Uppsala, Sweden)
Svengunnar.Ryman@evolmuseum.uu.se
•   Dr. Dagmar Triebel (Munich, Germany)
triebel@bsm.mwn.de

Those with nomenclatural problems are encouraged to contact the members for advice. If you find any particular fungal name that requires protection, it is recommended that you publish a proposal either to conserve that name or to reject an undesirable name, possibly in collaboration with a member of the committee.

If you are interested in the ongoing discussion about published proposals, click here to download PDF files of Committee mailings and commentaries circulated since the 2005 XVII International Botanical Congress in Vienna. The most recent report of the Committee is available here.

Actions taken at 2005 Vienna Congress are listed by McNeill, Stuessy, Turland & Horandl in Taxon 54(4): 1057-1064, 2005. The most recent edition of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (the Vienna or ‘red’ Code) was published in the fall of 2006 (McNeill et al. Regn. veg. 146 c/o Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein. ISBN: 3-906166-48-1). All current proposal PDFs can be downloaded at no cost from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax

The general website of Botanical Nomenclature is: http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IAPT/  A database in names proposed for conservation or rejection is available under: http://persoon.si.edu/codes/props