I had a good experience with #GBIF. A record from the Natural History Museum in London had stag-horn fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, present in Wellington, NZ, in 1933, "very common on rocks and cliff faces.” This species is only now starting to naturalise from Auckland garden plants.

I submitted a note and within days the senior curator of ferns at NHM emailed saying they'd corrected the mistake—it was in Papua New Guinea—and updated the species ID.

🙂

#BiodiversityData #museum #herbarium

Support is urgently requested to help keep Kew Herbarium at Kew.

The Director and Trustees intend to move the #Herbarium over an hour away from its current location at the heart of Kew.

Separating the herbarium from the gardens, library, and laboratories will cripple the ongoing taxonomic work at a time when we are facing a dire biodiversity crisis.

#Botany #Taxonomy #Systematics #Evolution #Ecology #Conservation #WildflowerHour #Mosstodon

https://chng.it/Tw9b5KphsQ

Science staff at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, whose work helps address the global extinction crisis, have asked for people to sign this petition.

The plan to move the #herbarium would isolate it from the living collections in the gardens, from the library, from the Jodrell laboratories, and from the scientists at Kew Gardens, plus make access more difficult for visiting scientists from around the world.

https://chng.it/XdbPXQQwNy

#ClimateCrisis #Extinction #Science #Botany

The coloniality of planting: legacies of racism and slavery in the practice of botany:
https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-coloniality-of-planting
#botany #herbarium #decolonial

#kleinerschmalbock auf #Berufkraut #Bloomscrolling #Herbarium

#Bloomscrolling #Blutweiderich #Pflanzen #Herbarium

Got to see three type specimens at the herbarium today and a fern specimen collected by Darwin. I really love my new job! #Botany #Herbarium

1/3 New EcolClip: Interview about tasks and future of herbaria with Dr. Darren Crayn – head of Australian Tropical Herbarium. Topics covered: Why are herbaria important? What can we do train more taxonomists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDkTBJMDb4
Please spread the word by boosting, retweeting or subscribing to our YouTube Channel. Any help would be highly appreciated and will help keeping EcolClip running and expanding!
https://www.youtube.com/@ConnySattler
#ecology #teaching #Botany #Herbarium #plants #taxonomy

Today, we interviewed Darren Crayn, director of the Tropical Australian Herbarium in Cairns, about the value of herbaria and what universities can do to educate more taxonomists.
The full interview will be published soon on Ecolclips: https://www.youtube.com/@ConnySattler

#herbarium
#Plants
#ecology
#taxonomy

Bachnelkenwurz

#Herbarium

New paper in Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals sharing data in @gbif:

#Digitization of the #Greenland Vascular Plant #Herbarium as a Unique Research Infrastructure to Study #Arctic #ClimateChange and Inform #NatureManagement 🇬🇱

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231159027

Gänse-Fingerkraut

#Herbarium

#Herbarium

Blutauge

Brombeere

#Herbarium

Thanks to @FediFollows I gained quite a number of new followers. Welcome!
Maybe this is a good opportunity to show what I am doing as a #herbarium #curator.
Curators are basically librarians for collectibles other than books. In my case, I take care of the plant collections of the #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon.
Taking care means a lot of things. I digitise (database and image), repair, clean and update herbarium specimens.

When great caricologists converse across time: interaction via annotation, Kenneth Kent Mackenzie and Frederick Hermann.

#herbarium #Carex #sedges

Fellow #herbarium curators and users: do appreciate getting loans returned with a fragment packet tucked in if material needed to be removed? Or is that more trouble that it's worth? Myself, I'd rather have the fragment packet.

#sedges

RT @SmithCoralReef
More #seaweed #art for #phycologyfriday! #Sargassum #Macrocystis #Petalonia #Plocamium #herbarium #botany #seaweedinspiration

From today's canoe trip through the inundated forests of the Caeté river floodplain -- this liana is actually a gymnosperm (should be Gnetum venosum Spruce ex Benth.). We collected this specimen for our herbarium at the University of Pará (UFPA) in Bragança (HBRA).
#Amazonas #Caeté #BragançaPA #Gnetaceae #lianas #wetlands #floodplain #forests #herbarium #HBRA #UFPA

HERBARIUM

Feld-Rittersporn

#Herbarium