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HerbariaandDatabaseSystems

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

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