Taxacomers:
I need a piece of trivial information for a popular text: How many
type specimens are stored in the biggest herbaria in the worl -
places like Kew, St. Petersburg, NY, Paris etc.? Botanical Museum,
Copenhagen, believe that they have about 30.000. They are currently
registrating them in a database. Another question:
how many synonyms are supposed to exist for every currently used
name? Has anybody ever tried an estimate?
- Thank you in advance, Finn
Finn N. Rasmussen
Botanical Laboratory, University of Copenhagen
Gothersgade 140, DK-1123 Copenhagen K., Denmark
Phone: +45 35 32 21 55 Fax: +45 33 13 91 04
Web homepage: http://www.bot.ku.dk
Email: FinnR at bot.ku.dk