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At the 18th International Botanical Congress (IBCXVIII) in Melbourne in 2011, mycologists were instrumental in getting the name of the Code changed to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (McNeill et al. 2012), but the issue of governance was referred to a Special Subcommittee on Governance of the Code with Respect to Fungi, which was charged with reporting to the next IBC to be held in Shenzhen, China, in July 2017. Given the extremely strong support among the mycological community for changes to the governance of fungal nomenclature, mycologists expect that the proposals from the Special Subcommittee will be considered with due care and respect at the Shenzhen Nomenclature Section — emphasising to the Section that the “fungi governance” proposals relate only to matters specific to fungi. [...]this ad hoc Working Group suggests that the Nomenclature Section of the XIXth IBC, meeting in Shenzhen on 17–22 July 2017, might favourably view the following proposal to be made from the floor during the Congress as a clarifying amendment to the set of proposals already in place concerning “fungi governance” (May et al. 2016): “The Section instructs the Editorial Committee to bring together all material relating only to fungi into a separate section or chapter within the Code, and that this section be subject to modification only by International Mycological Congresses operating as proposed by the Special Subcommittee on the Governance of the Code with Respect to Fungi.” Programme planning continues for IMC 11 In the previous issue of IMA Fungus (7(2): (57)–(59), December 2016), IMA Vice President and Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the 11th International Mycological Congress, Sharon A. Cantrell, provided an overview and the venue for this