Question

Mention application of herbarium

Answer 1

Answer:

A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.

Explanation:

Herbarium collections can have great significance and value to science, and have a large number of uses. In such cases, specimens preserved in a herbarium can represent the only record of the plant's original distribution. Environmental scientists make use of such data to track changes in climate

Answer 2

Answer:

Basic Functions & Research

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.);

house vouchers for photographs that can be used in lectures, web sites, and publications (taxonomy);

provide information on rare, extirpated, or extinct species that can no longer be found in nature (taxonomy, conservation biology);

provide modern specimens for comparisons with fossils (e.g. classification of leaf patterns; paleobotany);

to trace the history of usage of binomials for a given taxon in a given area (local flora);