Herbarium
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A herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
Herbarium book which dates from 1633. Made by the Flemish Bernardus Wynhouts.
Herbarium specimens ("exsiccata") of various Nepenthes at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
Herbarium book with Japanese plants, Siebold collection Leiden, 1825
Preparing a plant for mounting
Exsiccata
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Exsiccata is a work consisting of "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are consecutively numbered collections of dried herba
Herbarium
…used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called exsiccatum, plur. exsiccata) but, depending upon the material, may also be stored in boxes or kept in alcohol or other preservative. The specimens in a herbarium…
Digitized exsiccata specimen no. 199 Sphagnum subsecundum from the series Bryotheca Silesiaca, edited by Karl Gustav Limpricht; the imaged specimen is preserved in the National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg (LUX)
Digitized type specimen of Calicium adspersum subsp. australe, from Caliciales Exsiccatae no. 76 (fasc. IV), edited by Leif Tibell; exsiccata unit no. 76 was collected in Tasmania in 1981; the imaged specimen is preserved in the United States National Herbarium (US)
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