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Yvette Harvey Keeper of the RHS Herbarium
Yvette Harvey
Keeper of the RHS Herbarium
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specimens: 83,000
plant portraits: 3,300
photographic slides: 40,000
photographic prints: 8,000
pages of collectors notes:
3,000
TYPES STANDARDS
A type is a specimen of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. For plants, they are stored in a named herbarium.
Ref: International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants.
A nomenclatural standard is the herbarium specimen or illustration of a cultivar (cultivated variety) which forms a permanent record of the distinguishing characteristics of that cultivar. Using the standard specimen can help fix a name and act as a reference point when the application of a plant name has become confused.
Ref: International Code of Nomenclature for cultivated plants.
USES
DIGITISING THE COLLECTION>40,000 specimens scanned at 600 dpiJSTOR: 2741 types and standards
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