At the crossroads of botanical collections and molecular genetics laboratory: a preliminary study of obtaining amplifiable DNA from moss herbarium material [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Research focused on extreme environments is often associated with difficulties in obtaining fresh plant material. Herbaria may provide great support as they house large collections of specimens from different parts of the world.
Marta Saługa
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Development of a system for the automated identification of herbarium specimens with high accuracy
Scientific Reports, 2022 Herbarium specimens are dried plants mounted onto paper. They are used by a limited number of researchers, such as plant taxonomists, as a source of information on morphology and distribution. Recently, digitised herbarium specimens have begun to be used
Masato Shirai +11 more
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Diversity of Useful Mexican Legumes: Analyses of Herbarium Specimen Records
Diversity, 2021 Herbarium specimens of wild Mexican Leguminosae with ethnobotanical information are an important resource for understanding human–legume interactions. The 525 useful legume species registered in Mexico’s National Herbarium (MEXU) were analyzed using a ...
Alfonso Delgado-Salinas +3 more
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Checklist of the genus Dendrobium Sw. (Orchidaceae) in Manipur, India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2023 An enumeration of the genus Dendrobium Sw. (Orchidaceae) in Manipur, India was attempted. Literature review revealed the occurrence of 67 species under the genus from the state.
Hidangmayum Bishwajit Sharma +1 more
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A new tropical species of Aphyllon (Orobanchaceae: Orobancheae) from Chiapas, Mexico
Botanical Sciences, 2023 Background: Aphyllon is a genus of 25 root-holoparasitic species restricted to the Americas. It has a disjunct distribution, with 21 species distributed in North America and four in South America.
Antonio Francisco-Gutiérrez +1 more
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First vegetation-plot database of woody species from Huíla province, SW Angola [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2021 Angola is a country in south-central Africa, particularly rich in biodiversity. Despite the efforts recently made to document its biodiversity, there is a need for standardized sampling methods to document and compare the variety of ecosystems and plants
Francisco M.P. Gonçalves +15 more
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Vascular plants dataset of the herbarium (COFC) of the University of Cordoba, Spain [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2019 This paper describes the herbarium (COFC) dataset of vascular plants of the University of Cordoba (SW Spain). This dataset is made up of two collections, the General collection (61,377 specimens) and the Historical collection (1,614 specimens).
Gloria Martínez-Sagarra +1 more
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Diversity of Useful Plants in Cabo Verde Islands: A Biogeographic and Conservation Perspective
Plants, 2022 Cabo Verde’s biodiversity is threatened by activities that meet human needs. To counteract this, an integration of scientific and indigenous knowledge is required, but no comprehensive list of the useful local plants is available.
Maria Cristina Duarte +11 more
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Main collectors of Mexico’s vascular plants: a catalogue built from online databases
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2022 Databases of biological collections contain fundamental information for the study of biodiversity, hence the importance of their quality, which includes the data on collectors. For this purpose, a list of the main vascular plant collectors in Mexico was
Miguel Murguía-Romero +3 more
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Potential of Herbariomics for Studying Repetitive DNA in Angiosperms
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Repetitive DNA has an important role in angiosperm genomes and is relevant to our understanding of genome size variation, polyploidisation and genome dynamics more broadly.
Steven Dodsworth +12 more
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