CONTENTS
Key to the Numbering of the Articles, Notes and Recommendations
Important Dates in the Code
| Division I | Principles |
| Division II | Rules and Recommendations |
| Chapter I | Ranks of taxa (Art. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) | |
| Chapter II | Names of taxa (general provisions) |
| Section 1 | Definitions (Art. 6) | |
| Section 2 | Typification (Art. 7, 8, 9, 10) | |
| Section 3 | Priority (Art. 11 and 12) | |
| Section 4 | Limitation of the principle of priority (Art. 13, 14, 15) |
| Chapter III | Nomenclature of taxa according to their rank |
| Section 1 | Names of taxa above the rank of family (Art. 16, 17) | |
| Section 2 | Names of families and subfamilies, tribes and subtribes (Art. 18, 19) | |
| Section 3 | Names of genera and subdivisions of genera (Art. 20, 21, 22) | |
| Section 4 | Names of species (Art. 23) | |
| Section 5 | Names of taxa below the rank of species (infraspecific taxa) (Art. 24, 25, 26, 27) | |
| Section 6 | Names of plants in cultivation (Art. 28) |
| Chapter IV | Effective and valid publication |
| Section 1 | Conditions and dates of effective publication (Art. 29, 30, 31) | |
| Section 2 | Conditions and dates of valid publication of names (Art. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45) | |
| Section 3 | Citation of authors' names for purposes of precision (Art. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50) | |
| Section 4 | General recommendations on citation (Rec. 50A-F) |
| Chapter V | Rejection of names (Art. 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58) | |
| Chapter VI | Names of fungi with a pleomorphic life cycle (Art. 59) | |
| Chapter VII | Orthography of names and epithets and gender of generic names |
| Section 1 | Orthography of names and epithets (Art. 60 and 61) | |
| Section 2 | Gender of generic names (Art. 62) |
| Division III | Provisions for modification of the Code |
| Title | Subject index | Index to scientific names | Contact editors | Regnum Vegetabile
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