[Taxacom] Corrected links to PTBG herbarium

[David Lorence]

One of the Taxacom subscribers noted that the links to our herbarium PTBG
database in the message I sent last week did not work. I am attaching the
same message with the correct links this time.  My apologies!

 

David H. Lorence, Ph.D.

Director of Science

National Tropical Botanical Garden

3530 Papalina Road

Kalaheo, HI 96741  USA

 

phone: 808-332-7324 ext. 223

fax: 808-332-9765

email: lorence at ntbg.org

The mission of the National Tropical Botanical Garden is to enrich life
through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education by
perpetuating the survival of plants, ecosystems, and cultural knowledge of
tropical regions.

PTBG Herbarium Goes Online.

 

The herbarium of the National Tropical Botanical Garden s (Herbarium PTBG)
comprises one of the most comprehensive modern collections of Hawaiian plant
specimens, comprising about 56,000 specimens of flowering plants,
gymnosperms, ferns and fern allies, fungi, and bryophytes. The collection's
focus is plants of the Hawaiian Islands and other Pacific islands and
archipelagos, including Polynesia (particularly the Marquesas Islands),
Micronesia, and Melanesia. The Hawaiian Islands collections include native,
naturalized, and cultivated plants, as well as vouchers of plants in NTBG's
gardens. The herbarium also includes excellent reference collections of
Rubiaceae and Monimiaceae from tropical America, Madagascar, New Caledonia,
and elsewhere. It contains the most comprehensive modern collection of
vouchers of Hawaiian and Marquesan plants anywhere, including a number of
species that are now extinct. Over 27,000 collections have been data based
and are now available through the Garden's website [http://www.ntbg.org/] as
a searchable database [http://www.ntbg.org/programs/research-herbarium.php].


 

Currently high-quality images of all type specimens of vascular plants (over
200) are available through the Web database, to be viewed using Zoomify
<http://www.zoomify.com/> T. This allows zoom-and-pan for up-close
interactive viewing of the specimen over the Web. Images of other selected
groups will be added incrementally in the future. 

 

A Botanical Research Center (BRC) that brings together our growing herbarium
and library collections under a single roof is currently under construction
at NTBG's headquarters in Kalaheo, Kauai. The project is registered with the
U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design) Program and is designed to comply with their standards for Silver
LEED Certification. The BRC will serve not only as a resource for national
and international researchers, but also as a significant resource for Hawaii
and the local community. Through NTBG's education and outreach programs
local students will be able to learn firsthand about tropical botany,
horticulture, and ethnobotany, as well as the importance of traditional
knowledge and natural and cultural resource management. More information is
available at: http://www.ntbg.org/programs/research-brc.php