In the herbarium : the hidden world of collecting and preserving plants / Maura C. Flannery.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: ix, 325 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25cmISBN:- 0300247915
- 9780300247916
- QK75 .F53 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (277-309) and index.
Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization of these precious specimens today. She charts the growth of herbaria during the Age of Exploration, the development of classification systems to organize the collections, and herbaria's indispensable role in the tracking of climate change and molecular evolution. Herbaria also have historical, aesthetic, cultural, and ethnobotanical value--these preserved plants can be linked to the Indigenous peoples who used them, the collectors who sought them out, and the scientists who studied them.