Virtual herbarium
A virtual herbarium is a herbarium in digitized form. It is a collection of more or less high-resolution, digital images of dried and pressed plants or parts of plants. These are usually made available to a wide audience via the Internet. As in a conventional herbarium, each individual sample should be provided with additional information such as location, collector and correct botanical name. Mostly they are based on searchable databases.
See also
Web links
- Virtual herbarium of the Global Plants Initiative, an association of many herbaria around the world for the joint presentation of their type specimens
- Virtual herbarium of the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Free University Berlin
- Australia's Virtual Herbarium (English)
- Virtual Herbarium of the New York Botanical Gardens (English)
- Virtual herbarium of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Virtual Herbarium Reflora, a presentation of Brazilian plants (English, French and Portuguese)