Volume 157: International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011: APPENDICES II - VIII, prepared and edited by J. H. Wiersema (Principal Appendix Editor), J. McNeill (Chairman), N. J. Turland (Secretary) and F. B. Barrie, W. R. Buck, V. Demoulin, W. Greuter, D. L. Hawksworth, P. S

Table of contents (provisional):Preface / Appendix IIA Conserved and rejected names of familiesD. Pteridophyta / F. Fossil plants (excl. diatoms) /Appendix IIB Conserved and rejected names of families ofBryophytes and spermatophytes : C. Bryophyta /E. Spermatophyta /Appendix III Conserved and rejected names of genera and subdivisionsof genera :A. Algae :A1. Bacillariophyceae (incl. fossil diatoms) /A2. Bodonophyceae / A3. Chlorophyceae /A4. Chrysophyceae /A5. Cyanophyceae / A6. Dinophyceae / A7. Euglenophyceae /A8. Phaeophyceae / A9. Rhodophyceae / A10. Trichomonado-phyceae / A11. Xanthophyceae / B. Fungi / C. Bryophyta /:C1. Hepaticae / C2. Musci /D. Pteridophyta / E. Spermatophyta /E1. Gymnospermae / E2. Angiospermae / F. Fossils (excl. diatoms) /Appendix IV Conserved and rejected names of species andinfraspecific taxa : A. Algae / B. Fungi / C. Bryophyta /D. Pteridophyta / E. Spermatophyta / F. Fossils (excl. diatoms) /Appendix V Suppressed names : A. Algae / B. Fungi /C. Bryophyta /D. Pteridophyta / E. Spermatophyta / Appendix VI Suppressedworks / Appendix VII Binding decisions on descriptive statements /Appendix VIII Binding decisions on confusability of names /Index -The rules that govern the scientific naming of algae, fungi, and landPlants are revised at Nomenclature Section meetings at successiveAustralia in July 2011 were embodied in the main volume of theInternational Code of Nomenclaturefor algae, fungi, and plants,published in 2012 as Regnum Vegetabile volume 154. Amongthe decisions made in Melbourne was that the Appendices to theCode (other than App. I on the nomenclature of hybrids) couldbe published in electronic form only and therefore need no longerbe published together with the main text. Consequently the volumepublished in 2012 comprised only the main text of the Code andnoted that App. IIVIII would be published later, both as a printedvolume and electronically. This volume represents that laterpublication of these Appendices. Appendices IIVI coverconserved and rejected names and suppressed works as in theVienna Code (McNeill & al. in Regnum Veg. 146. 2006),but App. VII and VIII are new and reflect the decision of theMelbourne Congress to include in Appendices the binding decisionsunder Art. 38.4 of the Code on whether or not to treat a name asunder Art. 53.5 on whether or not to treat names as homonymswhen it is doubtful whether they or their epithets are sufficientlyalike to be confused.