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The article discusses the efforts to broaden community participation in the Nomenclature Section of the International Botanical Congress through virtual attendance. A Special-purpose Committee was established to investigate the possibility of virtual participation and voting, and a report was produced summarizing the discussions and suggesting a trial run at the next congress. However, it was concluded that full online voting is not currently feasible due to the nature of the voting process. Instead, the Nomenclature Section will be livestreamed to allow virtual attendance and observation of the proceedings. The livestream will be free of charge, and mechanisms for registration will be posted on the congress website. The organizers hope that this trial run will encourage more involvement in nomenclature. [Extracted from the article]

15.1 specified that both retention and rejection of names were authorized following GC decisions, "subject to the decision of a later International Botanical Congress". (218-220) Proposals to authorize binding decisions to be implemented upon General Committee approval of a recommendation, subject to ratification by a later International Botanical Congress When a vote to reject a General Committee recommendation achieves the required majority (Prov. 5.1(e) or (f)), that recommendation is cancelled and the matter is referred back to the General Committee. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a report on botanical nomenclature, discussed by the Vienna Nomenclature Section at the XVII International Botanical Congress, held in Vienna, Austria on July 12-16, 2005. Highlights discussed include acceptance of the Congress of a retroactive change in the Code, on need for thesis to have a statement or internal evidence to be considered as effectively published work, inclusion of a Glossary, and debate on name Acacia to be conserved with an Australian type.

The article presents the official report on the sessions of the Nomenclature Section of the XVIII International Botanical Congress held in Melbourne, Victoria in July 2011. Topics addressed include a change of title from the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature to the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants, the option of using English in place of Latin in describing or diagnosing new organism taxa under the Code, and morphotaxon disuse in fossil nomenclature.

Information about several topics discussed at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Victoria from July 18-22, 2011. Topics include the preliminary guiding mail vote on nomenclature proposals. It mentions several accepted proposals including the typification of names of fungi sanctioned under the provisions of Article 13 and 15 and on the alteration on the names of fungi with a pleomorphic life cycle.