in a drawer somewhere awaiting identification. “Many people think that discovering new species is just about going on expeditions to exotic locations and collecting new specimens, but the truth is that thousands of new plant species are lying neglected and unidentified in cupboards, drawers and cabinets around the world,” Oxford’s Robert Scotland said. The reason for this phenomenon, the resear...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Habitat preferences of Hericium erinaceus in Slovakia" (Kunca and Čiliak, 2016) [FUNECO607] [2]. The dataset include all available and unpublished data from Slovakia, besides the records from the same tree or stem. We compiled a database of records of collections by processing data from herbaria, personal records a...

The rapidly growing set of GenBank submissions includes sequences that are derived from vouchered specimens. These are associated with culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections, both living and preserved. Correct identification of the specimens studied, along with a method to associate the sample with its institution, is critical to the outcome of related stud...

according to previous studies, the genus rheum in iran includes four species: r. turkestanicum janisch., r. persicum losinsk., r. ribes l. and r. khorasanicum baradaran & jafari. during the long-term study, based on field and many herbaria specimens, three new species including r. iranshahrii taheri & assadi sp. nov., r. kordestanicum taheri & assadi sp. nov. and r. austro-iranicum taheri & ass...

Abstract. The potential for physical flora collections to support scientific research is being enhanced by rapid development of digital databases that represent characteristics of the physical specimens held in those collections and make this information available remotely. One example is the unified database of California flora observations from the Consortium of California Herbaria that was d...