Herbarium
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In Botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plants or plant parts, mainly in a dried form. These specimens are often used as the reference material to define a plant taxon; they contain the holotypes for these plants.
A herbarium can also be a building in which the specimens are stored.
See also
External links
- Linnean Herbarium (http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/fbo/welcome.html.en)
- Herbarium at Kew Gardens in London (http://griffin.rbgkew.org.uk/herbarium/)
- Herbarium at Cambridge (http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambuniv/libmuseums/herb.html)