Two species new to science are housed in our herbaria
Posted June 20, 2011 by Jennifer Ramp Neale, Director of Research & Conservation
Adjunct Researcher Loraine Yeatts works in the Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium
We have some exciting news to report from the Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium and Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi. Each collection has added a type specimen of a species new to science. A type specimen is a specimen selected to serve as a reference point when a plant or fungal species is first named. As a result, these specimens are extremely important to botanists and mycologists who are attempting to determine the correct application of a name.
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