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Herbarium Resources: Preparing S pecimens & Investigating P lants

Herbarium Resources: Preparing S pecimens & Investigating P lants. Identifying Specimens. Identify Specimens Technical Key Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants http://www.florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants. Resources for Herbarium Work.

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Herbarium Resources: Preparing S pecimens & Investigating P lants

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  1. Herbarium Resources:Preparing Specimens & Investigating Plants

  2. Identifying Specimens • Identify Specimens • Technical Key • Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants • http://www.florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/

  3. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

  4. Resources for Herbarium Work • http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/methods/herbariummanagement.htm

  5. Label Preparation • PLabel – program to make labels (see pdf or Herbarium website)

  6. Databasing and Labels: PLabel

  7. Mounting Specimens

  8. Mounting Specimens • Herbarium Work Space (Photo by I. Lopez). • Mounting Paper - good quality thick white paper approx. 12" x 18", depending on your storage abilities. • Fragment pocket paper - uniquely cut paper to fold in to pocket to attach to the sheet. • Label paper - good quality white paper cut approximately 3" x 4". • Cloth-backed tape, preferably water-activated, cut in to thin (2 mm. x 10 cm.) strips. • Paper tape • Thick white thread and needle • Small scissors • Elmer's glue • Small weights

  9. Mounting Specimens

  10. Fragments, Cones, etc.

  11. Ancillary Collections

  12. Imaging http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mossesinflas/ Describes an imaging project at FLAS

  13. Florida Plant Communities • http://www.fnps.org/

  14. Florida Plant Communities

  15. Florida Plant Communities • http://www.fnai.org/

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