…viewed through our herbarium catalog here. Top 5 regions No. of Specimens Herbarium Filing Region 2,464 India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 1,384 Britain and Ireland 2,226 North America 1,928 Inner China,…
The herbarium at RBGE holds around 3 million herbarium specimens. Each specimen consists of pressed plant material and a collection label mounted on archival card. They are used to identify…
…for DNA extraction, back in July 2006, was Chris Cargill, from the Australian National Herbarium, who promised to keep a lookout for us. In January 2008 she sent us an…
…looking institution to take a lead and “just do it”. This is an example of the latter. What we describe in the paper is that herbarium specimens within our collections…
…was to provide: 95,000 high quality images of herbarium specimens 5,000 digital photographs and scans of living plants 200 natural history artwork scans To date we have provided 185,559 records…
Throughout his catalogue of the East India Company Herbarium, Nathaniel Wallich makes reference to herbarium collections by using the abbreviations ‘Herb.’, ‘Hb.’ or simply ‘H.’ The clues to understanding what…
…this URL: http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/mobile/herbarium/ Or with the QR Code displayed. If you don’t have access to the herbarium you could pick some bar codes from our herbarium catalogue – which actually…
Sometimes a herbarium specimen is mainly made up of leaves mounted/affixed in a satisfying pattern, like this Klainedoxa gabonensis, an Irvingiaceae collected in Gabon in 2005 (E00217568).
This is Buchanania sp. Spreng., collected in Timor. It is an Anacardiacea specimen that came to us via Glasgow herbarium, sadly affixed with particularly wide sticky tape, E01458352…
…Erica mannii (Hook.f.) Beentje A selection of Dr Hewan’s plant specimens held by RBGE’s herbarium Dr David Harris, herbarium curator and deputy director of science, says: “Dr Hewan was one…