Clarifications needed concerning the new Article 59 dealing with pleomorphic fungi

• DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2012.03.02.09
• Publication Date: 2013-01-08T16:53:10Z
• Authors: Walter Gams; Hans-Otto Baral; Walter M. Jaklitsch; Roland Kirschner; Marc Stadler
• Keywords: Epithet

The new rules formulated in Article 59 of the International Code Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) will cause numerous, often undesirable, name changes, when only phylogenetically defined clades are named. Our task is to fungal taxa not just clades. Two suggestions made here that may help alleviate some disadvantages system. (1) Officially an epithet coined a list-demoted genus older than oldest one available list-accepted would have be recombined accepted genus. We recommend individual authors committees establishing lists protected names should generally recombine epithets from demoted into genus, another pre-2013 (2) Because concepts correlated teleomorph anamorph genera incongruent, enforced congruence leads loss information. Retaining most suitable generic imperative, even this subordinated another, list-accepted, name. Some kind cryptic dual nomenclature bound persist. therefore strongly retention binomials where they informative. With these recommendations, upheaval ensuing former Art. can reduced unavoidable minimum.