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Botany: Glossary, herbaria, and biodiversity resources

Botanical Terms Glossary

Herbaria

Herbaria (singular herbarium) house preserved and catalogued plant specimens and associated data. They provide a permanent record of the occurrence of a species at a particular place and time, and are the primary resource for research on the classification and distribution of the world's flora. (Source: AVH)

Biodiversity online resources

Species observation and occurrence data, and online texts.