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Building on Linnaeus: 260 Years of Taxonomic Annotation. Martin R. alfatovic. I Annotate - Annoto Ergo Sum, San Francisco, CA, 11 April 2013.
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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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Taxonomic Impediment
U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-42
Heuchera sanguinea Engelm.
Plant specimens document occurrence
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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