Building on Linnaeus: 260 Years of Taxonomic Annotation

Building on Linnaeus260 Years of Taxonomic Annotation

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L.LinnaeusVIAF ID: 34594730Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778

This “lumping” and “splitting”, renaming, finding syonyms, etc. caused a big problem when taxonomy was all done in print form ….

Notes and corrections to thisedition, by Strickland, occurin Ann. & Mag. N.H., VIII,Jan., 1842, pp. 367-375;March, 1842, pp. 544-545

DarwinDarwinVIAF ID: 27063124Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

Biologia Centrali-American

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U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-42

Heuchera sanguinea Engelm.

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Collection Information

Collectors: • Wislizenus

Collection Number: 210

Collection Date: 06 October 1846

Location: Mexico, Chihuahua

Elevation: 7,000 ft

Description: Crimson flower

Locality: Mountains, rocks, at Llanos near Cosiquiriachi.

Data origin & annotation over time

^ 2.Herbarium label: synthesized data

< 1.Field label: origin of data

^ 3.Annotation: locality

4.Annotation: revision >

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