Yvette Harvey

Keeper of the RHS Herbarium

Welcome to

WSY

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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