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This intensive fieldwork resulted in over a thousand new specimens deposited at the National Herbarium of Canada at the Canadian Museum of Nature and other herbaria worldwide.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

Fraga is tracking down reported sightings of a monkeyflower species she identified in herbaria specimens: Erythranthe marmorata, which has bright yellow petals with red spots.

From Salon • May 31, 2023

“There are undoubtedly more undescribed extinct species sitting in herbaria, collected 100 years ago.”

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2020

Botanists have been identifying and naming plants collected there since the 17th century, with samples stored in herbaria around the world.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2020

When dry it is soon attacked and eaten by certain insects, which are fond of a number of fungi, so that they are difficult to preserve in good condition in herbaria without great care.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis