Question

Give the importance of Herbarium and Museam

Answer 1

discover or confirm the identity of a plant or determine that it is new to science (taxonomy);
document the concepts of the specialists who have studied the specimens in the past (taxonomy);
provide material for making morphological measurements (taxonomy, systematics);
provide locality data for planning field trips (taxonomy, systematics, teaching);
provide data for floristic studies (taxonomy);
serve as a repository of new collections (taxonomy and systematics);
provide data for revisions and monographs (systematics);
verify plant Latin names (nomenclature);
serve as a secure repository for “type” specimens (taxonomy);
provide infrastructure for obtaining loans etc. of research material (taxonomy and systematics);
facilitate and promote the exchange of new material among institutions (taxonomy);
allow for the documentation of flowering and fruiting times and juvenile forms of plants (taxonomy, systematics, ecology, phenology);
provide the basis for an illustration of a plant (taxonomy and general publishing);
provide material for DNA analysis (systematics, evolution, genetics);
provide information for GIS studies of past and future collecting expeditions (taxonomy, ecology, etc.);