Resumen de What will happen with the name Acacia Mill.?
1) The voting that took place at the nomenclatural session of the International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Vienna was illegal from the point of view of parliamentarian procedure and practical application.
2) Only one species type must be assigned to the genus Acacia; this would be decided through a new procedure that follows the established rules.
3) Taxonomically speaking, the former subgenera of the genus Acacia belong to at least three different lineages that resolve within the tribe Mimoseae; therefore, the current debate for assigning a type to the genus revolves around two of the three subgenera: Acacia (Acacia) and Acacia (Phyllodineae = Racosperma).
