Chapter Questions
What is an herbarium?
What is the function or purpose of herbaria?
What is the name and most recent version of the reference book that lists the names, acronyms, and details of herbaria worldwide?
What is an herbarium specimen?
What are the characteristics of an herbarium specimen, including the standard size (in the United States)?
Describe a standard format and list the information that is contained in an herbarium label.
If a plant specimen is divided among two or more herbarium sheets, how is the herbarium label written?
Describe the procedure for mounting plants on herbarium paper.
What are two type of glues used for the above? How do they differ?
What is an herbarium curator and what are his/her duties?
What is an accession number and what is its function?
What is a genus folder?
Why are many genus folders color-coded?
How are herbarium specimens typically stored?
Review the procedures for handling herbarium specimens.
What is an annotation label?
What are the different types or designations on annotation labels?
Review the procedures for removing material from an herbarium specimen.
How may removed material be reconstituted for observations?
What is an herbarium loan and what is its purpose?
How may insects be controlled in herbaria?
What is a data information (database) system?
What types of data manipulation may be done with data information systems?
How might data information systems be valuable in conservation biology?
What is the difference between a flora (or floristic study) and a monograph, and what are examples of each?