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ACKNOW LEDGEM ENTS
The authors w ould like to thank the U niversity o f the
Free State for their facilities and the Foundation for
Research D evelopm ent for financial support.
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PR O G R E SS W IT H TH E TR IA L PH A SE FOR R EG ISTRA TIO N O F N EW PLA N T N A M ES*
$ In a spirit o f co-operation and to publicise this proposed innovation in plant nom enclature in southern A frica, this
note has been subm itted sim ultaneously to the follow ing botanical journals: South African Journal o f Botany, Forum
Botanicum and SABONET News.
IN T R O D U C T IO N
A num ber o f far-reaching proposals aim ed at the refine­
ment and sim plification of the International Code o f
Botanical Nomenclature were discussed in some detail at
the N om enclature Section o f the X Vth International
B otanical C ongress (IB C ) held in A ugust 1993 in
Yokohama, Japan. Three o f the main issues were the adop­
tion o f lists of Names in current use (Smith et al. 1993;
Smith & H aw ksw orth 1994), the extended options o f con­
serving and rejecting nam es (Greuter & N icolson 1993),
and the registration o f all new plant names (Borgen et al.
1997; G reuter & Von Raab-Straube 1998). This paper
deals with the last-nam ed issue, namely the proposed sys­
tem by m eans o f which new nam es o f plants and fungi
would have to be dealt with from 1 January 2(XX) onwards.
A rticle 32.1 o f the International Code o f Botanical
N omenclature adopted at the 1993 IBC (G reuter et al.
1994) c o n c lu d e s w ith ‘In addition, subject to the
approval o f the XVI International B otanical C ongress,
nam es (autonym s excepted) published on or after 1
January 2000 m ust be registered.’ Furtherm ore, A rticle
32.2 states that ‘Registration is effected by sending the
printed m atter that includes the protologue(s) w ith the
nam e(s) to be registered clearly identified, to any reg is­
tering office designated by the International A ssociation
for Plant Taxonom y.'
To dem onstrate the feasibility o f a registration system ,
the International A ssociation of Plant Taxonom y (IA PT)
undertakes a non-m andatory tn al o f registration for a
tw o-year period, starting 1 January 1998 (Borgen et al.
1997). D etails of the proposed im plem entation o f the
registration requirem ent (Borgen et al. 1998) will be
considered by the St Louis C ongress in July 1999. Since
M ay 1998, a searchable dem onstration database co n tain ­
ing all nam es trial-registered after January 1998 can be
freely consulted on the Internet (http://w w w .bgbm .fuberlin.de/registration/Q ueryForm .htm ).
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R EGISTRATION CENTR ES
A s part o f the registration procedure o f new plant
nam es it is im portant to establish a national Registration
O ffice (RO ) in as m any countries as possible. This w ould
enable editors and authors to register new plant nam es
and com binations in their ow n or a neighbouring coun­
try. It is possible that the registration o f all new plant
nam es w ould becom e m andatory in future, w ith effect
from (but not before) 1 January 2000.
The N ational Botanical Institute (NBI) was recently
approached by the IA PT to serve as RO for South Africa.
The Institute was contacted in view o f its permanence,
national role, reliable com m unication system (telephone,
fax, e-m ail, postal services) and perm anent filing and
library facilities. The N BI provisionally accepted this invi­
tation on behalf o f all South A frican botanists. In the case
o f new nam es and com binations for fungi, however, the
authors have liaised w ith M s Alice Baxter o f the National
Fungal C ollection, and after consultation with her staff she
has agreed that the N BI act as RO for those nam es as well.
A C C R E D IT E D JO U R N A L S/SE R IE S
An enum eration o f 119 journals or series accredited
with the IA P T appeared in Taxon 47: 498, 499 (1998).
T his list is being regularly updated as new journals are
added and is available on the W eb (http://w w w .bgbm .fuberlin.de/iapt/registration/journals.htm ). It will be pub­
lished annually in the journal Taxon.
A fter consultation w ith som e o f the editors, it is pro­
posed that the follow ing jo u rn als should receive prefer­
ence w hen botanists w orking on the local flora establish
new nam es for plant taxa:
1. Aloe (journal o f the S ucculent Society of South Africa).
2. Bothalia (biannual house journal o f the N ational
Botanical Institute).
3. Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium (occasional
publication o f the B olus H erbarium , U niversity of Cape
Town).
4. Flora o f southern Africa (occasional publication o f the
N ational B otanical Institute).
5. Flowering Plants o f Africa (biennial publication o f the
N ational Botanical Institute).
6. Palaeoflora o f southern Africa (occasional publication
p u b lish ed in the S trelitzia series o f the N ational
Botanical Institute).
7. South African Journal o f Botany (tw o-m onthly journal
jo in tly published by the N ational B otanical Institute and
the South A frican A ssociation o f B otanists).
8. Strelitzia (occasional publication o f the N ational
B otanical Institute).
Editors o f other South A frican journals who w ould
like their publication to be added to this list should co n ­
tact G.F. Sm ith as a m atter o f priority.
It should furtherm ore be noted that proposals to
restrict publication o f nam es for plant novelties in nonscientific publications will be voted on before or during
the 1999 N om enclature Section o f the M issouri IBC
(L aferriere 1998).
REGISTRATION PR O C ED U R ES
Steps to be taken by authors
A uthors m ust ensure that nam es o f all new taxa and
new com binations are registered and they can do it in one
of the follow ing ways:
1. By sending their m anuscripts to an accredited journal
(the issue o f accreditation is discussed below ). The ed i­
tor o f that journal will then see that registration takes
place.
2. By subm itting a request w ith the relevant printed m at­
ter (in duplicate) and specifying w hich nam es are to be
registered to a recording centre (the nearest RO). T his
applies only to nam es not published in an accredited
journal or serial, for exam ple in a book, m onograph or
thesis. Use o f the apposite form s for registration requests
is strongly recom m ended (although not m andatory).
Registration form s are available from all Registration
Offices. Steps are as follows:
• R egistration form s will be m ailed upon request.
A uthors who wish to use the RO in South A frica run
by the NBI should send their requests to the address
of the senior author o f this paper.
• U pon receipt at the RO, each com pleted registration
form (to be subm itted in triplicate) and the accom pa­
nying two copies or reprints o f the relevant article will
be date-stam ped. By this act, the subm itted nam es
will, technically speaking, becom e registered and
dated (irrespective o f their subsequent processing).
• Each form will be provided w ith the acronym o f the
institution running the RO (PRE for the N ational
H erbarium , Pretoria, in the case o f South A frica), and
an appropriate NBI filing system num ber will be allo ­
cated. At NBI in Pretoria, the filing system will be
m aintained in the M ary G unn Library under supervi­
sion o f the D irector: Research.
• A copy o f the form will be returned to the subm itting
author.
• The R O ’s archival copy o f the registration form will
be faxed to the office of the IA PT w ithout delay.
• The original form along with one copy or reprint of
the article will be sent by registered mail to the IAPT
office w ithout delay. The second copy will rem ain in
the RO archive perm anently, initially as an insurance
against the risk o f postal loss.
Steps to be taken by editors of accredited journals
• For a journal to be accredited, its publishers must
com m it them selves by signing an agreem ent w ith the
IAPT.
• To make the accredited status o f these journals known
to authors and readers, it is suggested by the IA PT that
the follow ing wording be used, appropriately placed
on the cover and/or in the imprint: ‘A ccredited with
the International A ssociation for Plant Taxonom y for
the purpose o f registration of new nam es o f vascular
plants (excluding fossils)’ or ‘A ccredited w ith the In­
ternational A ssociation for Plant Taxonom y for the
purpose o f registration o f new non-fungal plant
nam es’ or ‘A ccredited with the International A sso­
ciation for Plant Taxonom y for the purpose o f regis­
tration of all new plant nam es’. The last statem ent
w ould also provide for new fungal and fossil names.
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• The new nam es and new com binations to be regis­
tered should be identified prim arily by being listed in
a separate index in each issue or by being explicitly
enum erated in the sum m ary/abstract or otherw ise
specified by the editor of the journal.
•
Each individual issue featuring nam es of new taxa or
new com binations m ust be subm itted to a pre-defined
registration office or centre as soon as it is published
and as speedily as possible. This will be Pretoria
(PR E), for South A frica, and may be PRE for neigh­
bouring countries not having their own RO.
ACKNOW LEDGEM ENTS
The authors w ould like to thank M rs Em sie du Plessis
and D r O tto Leistner, colleagues at the NBI, for their
assistance in com piling this article.
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