Question

How do you prepare your own herbarium sheeta?what are the different tools you carrywith you while collecting plants for tye preparation of a herbarium? what information shold a preserved plant material on the herbarium sheet provide for taxonomical studies​

Answer 1

Answer:

Herbarium sheet is having length of 11.5 × 16.5 inches

Answer 2

For the preparation of herbarium sheets, a sheet of about 29 x 41 cm is cut from chart paper. Dried specimens are mounted on the sheets with the help of glue or cellotape. A label is pasted on sheets at lower right comer.

Tools for collection are

(i) Digger (ii) Knife (iii) Scissors (iv) Vasculum

(v) Polythene hags (vi) Old newspapers (vii) Blotting papers (viii) Plant press

(ix) Field notebook (x) Magnifying glass.

Information from herbarium sheets. The label of herbarium sheets has information like scientific name of plant, family, common and English name, local name, collector’s name, place, time and date of collection.

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