Virtual herbarium

In botany, a virtual herbarium is a herbarium in a digitized form. That is, it concerns a collection of digital images of preserved plants or plant parts. Virtual herbaria often are established to improve availability of specimens to a wider audience. However, there are digital herbaria that are not suitable for internet access because of the high resolution of scans and resulting large file sizes (several hundred megabytes per file). Additional information about each specimen, such as the location, the collector, and the botanical name are attached to every specimen. Frequently, further details such as related species and growth requirements are mentioned.

See also

Herbar Digital

External links

• Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden)
• Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• United States Virtual Herbarium
• Louisiana State University Virtual Herbarium
• National Botanic Garden of Belgium Virtual Herbarium
• University of the Balearic Islands Virtual Herbarium
• University of Connecticut Virtual Herbarium
• Utah Valley University Virtual Herbarium
• Virtual Herbarium of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin
• The Virtual Herbarium at The New York Botanical Garden