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Herbario
Herbario
Herbario
MichaelG.Simpson
Whatisanherbarium?
Aplacewherepreservedplantcollectionsare
kept,
usuallypressedanddriedplantspecimens
attachedtoasheetofpaper
=herbariumspecimen
Functionorpurposeofherbaria?
Maintainplantspecimens
Actascentersofplantsystematicsresearch
Referencebookforherbaria?
IndexHerbariorum
Homlgren, P. K., N. H. Holmgren, and L. C. Barnett,
eds. 1990. Index herbariorum, part I: The
herbaria of the world, 8th ed. New York: New
York Botanical Garden.
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html
(continuously updated)
IndexHerbariorum
Herbarium
YearFoundedAcronym
Specimens
MusumNationald'HistoireNaturelle,ParisFrance
1635
P,PC
9,500,000
NewYorkBotanicalGarden,Bronx,NewYork,U.S.A.
1891
NY
7,000,000
RoyalBotanicGardens,Kew,England,U.K.
1841
7,000,000
ConservatoireetJardinbotaniques,Genve,Switzerland
1824
6,000,000
KomarovBotanicalInstitute,St.Petersburg(Leningrad),Russia
5,770,000
1823
LE
MissouribotanicalGarden,SaintLouis,Missouri,U.S.A.
1859
MO
5,400,000
TheNaturalHisotryMuseum,London,England,U.K.
1753
BM
5,200,000
HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,Massachusetts,U.S.A.
1864
GH
5,005,000
(incl.A,AMES,ECON,FH,NEBC)
NaturhistorischesMuseum,Wien,Austria
1807
5,000,000
SwedishMuseumofNaturalHistory,Stockholm,Sweden
1739
4,400,000
SmithsonianInstitution,Washington,D.C.,U.S.A.
1848
US,USNC 4,368,000
InstitutedeBotanique,Montpellier,France
1845
MPU
4,000,000
UniversitdeLyon,Villeurbane,France
1924
LY
4,000,000
UniversitatisFlorentinae,Museobotanico,Firenze,Italy
1842
FI
3,650,000
FriedrichSchillerUniversitt,Jena,Germany
1895
JE
3,000,000
Herbarium
Specimen?
Sizeandformat
ofherbarium
specimen?
HerbariumLabel?
HerbariumCurator?
Personresponsibleforrunningtheherbarium.
1)
2)
3)
4)
Maintainingcollection.
Processing new collections to the herbarium.
Distributing loans.
Resource for plant identification.
Accessionnumber?
Permanentnumberassociatedwitheach
specimen.
Usuallywrittenwithherbariumacronym:
SD121596
SDSU13655
UC218486
Storingandhandlingspecimens?
Herbariumcabinet
/compactor,
withsealeddoor.
Genusfoldersstored,
maybecolorcoded:
alphabeticalorby
classificationsystem.
Handlecarefully,gen.
dontturnupside
down.
AnnotationLabel?
1) Verifiesorchangesidentityofspecimen.
2) Documents removal of plant material
Differenttypes
ofdata?
Removingplantmaterial?
1) GetPermission
2) Mayreconstituteinboilingwaterordetergent
solution.
3) Flowers,pollen,ovules,tissues,DNA.
HerbariumLoan?
Insectcontrol?
DataInformationSystem?
Inputting,organization,andaccessingof
information.
Datamayanswerquestionsinplanttaxonomy.
DataInformationSystems:Fields
TaxonomicNumber
Group
Family
Genus
Species
SpeciesAuthor
InfraspecificRank
InfraspecificName
InfraspecificAuthor
CollectionNumber
DeterminationDate
Certaintyofidentification
Country
State
District
Locality
Latitude
Longitude
Elevation
HabitatDescription
DateofCollection
Collector:FirstName
Collector:LastName
AssociateCollectors
Phenology
AccessionNumber
AccessionSource
SupplementalInformation
Typesofdata?
Collector
Plantfeatures
Flowercolor,phenology,planthabit,size,etc.
Geography(specificlatitude/longitude)
Maps
Habitat
Substratetype,topography
Communityassociates
Rarity
FlorasversusMonographs?
Floratreatmentdocumentingallplantsofagiven
region,
e.g.,FloraofPalomarMountainStatePark
Monographtreatmentdocumentingalltaxaofa
giventaxonomicgroup
e.g.,MonographofthegenusTephrosia