(284–285) Proposals to add a voted Example to Article 60.9 in order to end theconfusion over the maintenance or omission of hyphens in epithets formed from names containing a preposition or a definite article

Nomenclatural study and current status of the names Boletus emileorum, Boletus crocipodius and Boletus legaliae (Boletales), including typification of the first two.

“…60C.5(c) of the ICN, which we consider as representative cases. Finally we quantified the corrections which would be required in the IPNI database, if Proposals 284 or 285 (Hartley et al 2016), concerning the retention or omission of the hyphen in this type of epithets, were accepted.…”

“…Recently, Hartley et al (2016) published two proposals aimed at the standardisation of epithets based on names containing a preposition or a definite article (le, la, de, von and van). The purpose is to have a single criterion for correcting names by joining elements without a hyphen (Proposal 284) or with a hyphen (Proposal 285).…”

“…Fortunately, Proposal 284 was accepted and Proposal 285 was rejected at the Shenzhen congress. In addition, the voted examples proposed by Hartley et al (2016) will be incorporated in the ICN as amended examples. This distinction is very important because an amended example contains cases explicitly covered by the ICN as defended by us in this paper while a voted example covers situations not fully or explicitly covered by the ICN, as defended by Mikšík et al (2016).…”