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(1) Herbarium [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
  In Botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plants samples, mainly dried, well documented, mounted, labelled, and systematically classified, for use in scientific study.  
     
Dry plant samples provide data for systematical studies, also document a plant taxon; they contain the "type specimens" the original naming. These specimens are equipped with the name (if available), geographical, chronological and collectors data, and typically archived in natural history collections.
(2) Herbarium [ Taxonomy ]
     
  A herbarium is also the institution in which such a collection of specimens is kept.  
     
(3) Herbarium
     
  Moreover a herbarium is the place, room or building in which plants samples (for example leaves, flowers, seeds, and stems)  are preserved and stored along with information about them.  
     

 

 

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