Herbarium

In Botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plants or plant parts, mainly in a dried form. These specimens are often used as the reference material to define a plant taxon; they contain the holotypes for these plants.

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A herbarium can also be a building in which the specimens are stored.

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Botany: :For other meanings, see Botany (disambiguation)...

Plant: Land plants (embryophytes)Non-vascular plants (bryophytes)Hepaticophyta - liverwortsAnthocerotophyta - hornwortsBryophyta - mossesVascular plants (tracheophytes)Lycopodiophyta - clubmossesEquisetophyta - horsetailsPteridophyta - "true" fernsPsilotophyta - whisk fernsOphioglossophyta - adderstonguesS...

Taxon: A taxon (plural taxa), or taxonomic unit, is an element of a taxonomy, most commonly used in the scientific classification in biology, where a taxon is is a group of organisms that has been named. Taxa form a hierarchical scheme, each being broken down into sub-taxa. A taxon can then be placed at a ...

Herbarium related Images and Photos (experimental)

Medieval Herbarium I	Medieval Herbarium II	Page 24 from a Herbarium	Alchemilla from a Herbarium
Close-Up of Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) in a Herbarium

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