Specific commissions and committees are created upon decision of the International Board, on a temporary or unlimited basis, to fulfill the purposes of OPTIMA. Currently, the following commissions and committees are open and active:
OPTIMA Commission and Committees:
- Commission on Bryophytes
- Commission for alien plants in the Mediterranean area
- Commission for Common Names
- Commission for DNA Research
- Commission for the Conservation of economically important and Endemic Plants
- Commission for the Diffusion of Knowledge on Mediterranean Plants
- Commission on Fungi
- Itinera Mediterranea Commission
- Lichens Commission
- Commission on Mediterranean Type Material
- Commission for the OPTIMA Herbarium and Library
- Commission for Karyosystematics
- Commission for Mediterranean ethnobotany
- Prize commission
- Web Commission