Yvette Harvey Keeper of the RHS Herbarium
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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 A nomenclatural which the scientific name of that standard is the organism is formally attached. For plants, herbarium specimen or they are stored in a named herbarium. illustration of a cultivar (cultivated variety) Ref: International Code of Nomenclature for algae, which forms a fungi and plants. 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.
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DIGITISING THE COLLECTION >40,000 specimens scanned at 600 dpi JSTOR: 2741 types and standards
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