Plant Systematics Herbarium Tour Quiz

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How long are new specimens frozen for and at what temperature?

-29 F and 2 days

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How long are specimens pressed?

24 hrs

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What happens once specimens are dry?

Specimens are digitized. All information from their label is input into the
North American Network of Small Herbaria (NANSH) and uploaded with a high
quality photograph of the specimen

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What is the Pringle’s size ranking and around how many specimens does it house?

2nd (only to Harvard) in size, and ~40,000 specimens

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How are vascular specimens ordered?

Phylogenetically.

  1. Lycophytes

  2. Ferns

  3. Gymnosperms

  4. Angiosperms


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How many families of angiosperms are stored in the Pringle?

413

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How are specimens organized within the phylogenetic order?

  1. Family (alphabetic)

  2. Genus 9alphabetic and geographic)

  3. Species (alphabetic)


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Folder color to geographic region

  • Green - Vermont

  • Blue - eastern hemisphere

  • Tan - western hemisphere

  • Yellow - cultivated

  • Red - type specimen


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What is a type specimen?

It includes a holotype, which are the original specimen from which a species is described, and an insotype, which is a copy of the holotype collected at the same time and from the same place as the holotype