taxonomy

Herbarium specimen collection and preparation

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What is an herbarium specimen? An herbarium specimen also called a “collection” or a “sample” is a pressed, dried plant or plant parts suitable for storage and future reference accompanied by a label with the collector’s name, the number of

Scientific names

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Scientific names of plants have two words, the genus name and the species name, often called the specific epithet. Determination of the scientific name, also called the binomial, of a plant specimen is the goal of plant identification. For example,