This site is for the scientific research community. It is assumed that the user has some knowledge of the significance of type specimens. This website reproduces in electronic form the catalogue data ...

Many specimens represent type specimens for Linnaean names, and are included in the Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project based at the Museum. A specimen used for scientific study that is deposited ...

How taxonomic information is created ... specimens from the full geographic ranges of scores of related species, type specimens to assure nomenclatural stability, and specimens and data from ...

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