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� 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. 7
Numbering of collections To make record keeping easy, each specimen, or group of duplicates of a specimen, are given a unique number. The simplest and most recommended method is recording the Collector’s surname, followed by one or more digits (prefix) and the consecutive number Figure 7: High tree climbing with harness for collection of fertile specimens starting with 1. An example is “Sidiyasa Berau 1”. In summary: � Each collection receives its own unique number � Each duplicate of the same individual gets the same number � Different individuals of the same species get a different number If a numbered specimen is lost, damaged or destroyed, do not re-use its number. It should be shown as cancelled in the field book as well as in the database. If a mistake is made and a number duplicated, or two different plants are collected under the same number, separate the collections by using letters as suffixes to the original number, such as “Sidiyasa Berau 1A”. Basic equipment Recommended, basic, equipment for a plant collector includes the following: � Rucksack. � Secateurs � Pocket knife � Machete � GPS � Altimeter � Binocular � Camera and films � Polythene bags of different sizes, rice sacks � Jerry can with methylated alcohol (spiritus 80%) Figure 8: Tree climbing equipment (harness) 8
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Page 3 and 4: Berau Forest Management Project (BF
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