BERAU HERBARIUM

Family
Genus
Species
Vernacular name with the name of the dialect or language
Local uses
Collector Prefix
Number
Location (Country/ Province/ Administrative region/ Town/village
Longitude and latitude
Altitude
Habitat
Habit – this includes include notes on overall form of the plants, height, diameter,
bark, buttresses, wood, colour of flowers and fruits; essentially those characters that
will be not be available on specimens
Like number tags, pencil should be used for writing in field books, as it will not wash off.
Selecting the specimens
When plants are small and fit to the size of the mounting paper one should dig out the whole
plant and dry the specimens including a portion of the root system. When plants are woody
or too large to make an entire specimen, usually only fertile clippings will be taken. Fertile
clippings are branches with flowers or fruits (preferably both). Generally, at least seven
duplicates are collected. Number tags are attached and the material stored temporarily in
large polythene bags to avoid the specimens drying out before they can be properly
processed.
Large trees should be climbed to reach the fertile branches (figure 7). Safety regulations
must be followed. At minimum, two trained climbers should be involved in the collecting
activities.
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