Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi: 23

Abstract

SummaryFive lists of names for protection assembled by working groups set up under Art. F.2.1 are approved. The lists contain one family name along with 39 names of genera and 10 names of species, to be treated as protected against listed and unlisted synonymous or homonymous names. Lists were compiled by working groups (WGs) approved by the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi and the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi: on Homobasidiomycetes, Heterobasidiomycetes, Orbiliomycetes, Sordariomycetes (excluding Diaporthales, Hypocreales and Magnaporthales) and Miscellaneous fungi. The list from the Pyricularia/Magnaporthe WG did not require any formal action. Acceptance of two proposals to conserve names under Art. 14.1 associated with two of the names (Typhula, Typhulaceae) originally included in the list for protection from the Homobasidiomycetes WG led to the removal of those two names from consideration for protection. The names Drechslerella and Dactylellina, initially included in the list from the Orbiliomycetes WG, were withdrawn from that list. In relation to two proposals under Art 14.1 that are connected to the list from the Dothideomycetes WG, the following family name is not recommended for conservation: Pleomassariaceae against Prosthemiaceae; and the following generic name is not recommended for conservation: Pleomassaria against Prosthemium. As a result of consideration of the set of proposals that contained the two proposals connected to Typhulaceae, the following family name is recommended for conservation: Phyllotopsidaceae against Sclerotiaceae; the following two names of genera are recommended for conservation: Macrotyphula against Sclerotium, and Typhula with a conserved type; and the following species name is recommended for rejection under Art. 56: Sclerotium fulvum. A modified proposal resulted in a recommendation to conserve the name Peziza medicaginis against Sporonema phacidioides. The generic name Discosphaera Haeckel (Algae) is recommended for conservation against Discosphaera Dumort. (Fungi). Two individual proposals under Art. 14.1 are listed as having been withdrawn.