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…number of Society publications, devised methods for arranging and cataloguing the Society’s herbarium and collected a significant herbarium collection himself, discovering several new plants including Astragalus alpinus in the process….
Martin Gardner with the Darwin specimen in the Herbarium. The Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh dates back over 150 years to the mid-19th century and there are new…
62. Lithocarpus elegans (Blume) Soepadmo FAGACEAE Photograph of spikes of mature fruits, RBGE herbarium The genus Lithocarpus is closely related to the oaks (Quercus) and occurs in South and South-East…
…RBGE herbarium RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19940447 Scientific Name:Picea smithiana (Wall.) Boiss. Family:Pinaceae Genus:Picea Epithet:smithiana Collector:Howick, Charles & McNamara, William A. Year:1993 Origin:India, Bangladesh & Pakistan:Uttar Pradesh…
…in the herbarium at RBGE; Forrest’s 22327 turns out to be the Type collection Aconitum duclouxii var. ecalcaratum. So our record clearly is in error with the number 222327, it…
…a few years later. This enabled documentation of the floral and pollen morphology that allowed us to describe the species. In 2009, Dr Marlina Ardiyani from Herbarium Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute…
…recorder for West Lothian. Moths Bedstraw Hawkmoth (Hyles gallii) – A caterpillar of this scarce hawkmoth was found in September 1973 by then Keeper of the British Herbarium, Douglas McKean,…
…often filled with the former owners’ thoughts, observations, and notes. There are also volumes containing herbarium samples. Over the course of these blog posts, I will explore just a small…
…closely with George. All of these new species are described from flowering and fruiting herbarium material but in all but one case only from a single herbarium collection. This reflects…
…has been written about in a previous story, and I’d been looking at the specimens held in the Garden’s herbarium that he’d sent from West Africa. Hewan was born on…
I’ve said this before but sometimes you find amazing things when raking through the herbarium cabinets. I first came across this specimen when I was part of the digitisation team…
A new exhibition, Natures Beloved Son, featuring the herbarium and words of pioneering conservationist John Muir, opened recently in the John Hope Gateway. The plants featured were found in herbaria…
…of Sumatra, Sulawesi and Kalimantan (Borneo). While we wait, it is a good opportunity to work in the Herbarium, photographing specimens, and meeting with our counterparts to plan for the…
…Arid House Following the tour of the glasshouses, we had a quick visit to the Herbarium, where Dr Neil Bell pulled out some of the more spectacular mosses in our…
…GBIF data feed so that RBGE can now contribute to this global resource. Currently this is around 360,000 images linked to herbarium specimens (mainly scans of specimens) and 44,000 images…
This unassuming section of trunk was sitting on a desk in the herbarium office after being “discovered” in the back of a carpological cupboard. It arrived in our collection in…
…lenses of animal eyes. It seems unlikely that Swinton did not also send herbarium specimens to Robert Graham, but, if so, these would have been sold with Graham’s herbarium in…
…another was named Primula buryana. Pam Eveleigh gives further details in her excellent blog account. There are numerous sheets of both species in the Herbarium at RBGE, including those from…
…for an identity check using DNA sequence data. We also received a duplicate of the herbarium voucher specimen from Kew, a dried pressed plant that is conserved so that anyone…