Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery.
Despite the importance of species discovery, the processes including collecting, recognizing, and describing new species are poorly understood. Data are presented for flowering plants, measuring quantitatively the lag between the date a specimen of a new species was collected for the first time and...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2010
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