This paper aims to construct a common set of functional requirements for metadata systems based on the research of metadata system specifications at the National Digital Archives Program (NDAP) in Taiwan. Eight projects of the NDAP are chosen as a case study to examine the functional requirements of metadata systems across museums, libraries, archives, and herbaria communities. To enable deeper...

About the author: Anna Sher is assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Denver and director of research, herbaria, and records at the Denver Botanic Gardens. 47 We’ve all heard how bad invasive plants are, how they crowd out wildflowers, waste our precious water, and poison our livestock. Scientists in Colorado and Montana made news in science not long ago for presenting ...

Taxonomic revision of the tropical Asian species of Solanum revealed two names, Solanum poka Dunal and Solanum graciliflorum Dunal, whose identities were uncertain and whose application has always been tentative. Material collected in Java at the beginning of the 19th century by Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour and used to describe these taxa has not been found, despite extensive searches i...

Abstract The present study aims to improve the knowledge of Simaroubaceae in Reserva Ducke, Manaus, Amazonas. It is based on morphological analysis herbaria collections and field expeditions. family represented that area by six species belonging four genera: Homalolepis (1 sp.), Picrolemma Simaba (3 spp., including a new one described herein), Simarouba sp.). Identification keys, descriptions, ...

Herbarium specimens deposited in publicly accessible collections are the basis for all scientific names because only permanent specimens can be re-studied by independent researchers, the very essence of science. Re-investigations may be done with morphological, chemical, genomic, computer-tomographic, or other methods. Based on new herbarium material, I here provide a name for the Xishuangbanna...

The endemic Oncocyclus irises of Lebanon are rare and threatened. Their historical locations (based on information from herbaria and the available literature) were compared to an update of their current distribution. Only 50% of the previously known populations were confirmed extant, indicating a considerable decline in the range of these taxa. The populations that were relocated were either sm...

a Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA b Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028 Pretoria, South Africa c Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, United Kingdom d Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, Departme...

We provide and discuss a floristic survey of herbaceous and subshrubby aquatic and palustrine angiosperms of Viruá National Park (VNP). The VNP is located in the northern Amazon basin and displays phytophysiognomies distributed in a mosaic where these plants occur, as flooded forests, hydromorphic white-sand savannas, "buritizais" and waterbodies. After expeditions between February/2010 and Jan...

The timing of phenological events, such as leaf-out and flowering, strongly influence plant success and their study is vital to understanding how plants will respond to climate change. Phenological research, however, is often limited by the temporal, geographic, or phylogenetic scope of available data. Hundreds of millions of plant specimens in herbaria worldwide offer a potential solution to t...

The Botanical Society of Brazil (SBB) for many years discussed the need to improve nation’s herbarium collections, by providing training and educating botanists as specialists in plant fungal taxonomy. It was this context that an audacious project developed, which envisaged personnel studies diversity (particularly taxonomy curation collections) organization online delivery label data specimens...