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. 2022 Oct 10;10:e86089. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e86089

Examples of labels from herbarium specimens where the female collector has gone unrecognised.

Figure 1a.

Figure 1a.

The label of a specimen of Ribesleptanthum A.Gray collected by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell and Wilmatte Porter Cockerell from The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY) where only her husband was documented. URI:http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/specimen_details.php?irn=4063571. Catalogue Number 3771543 (©The New York Botanical Garden, CC-BY-4.0).

Figure 1b.

Figure 1b.

The label of a specimen of Dudleyacollomiae Rose collected by Rose Eudora Collom from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where the loss of the prefix “Mrs” has led to the specimen being mis-attributed to her husband W. B. Collom. URI:http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/K000838434. Catalogue Number K000838434 (©Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC-BY-4.0).

Figure 1c.

Figure 1c.

The label of a specimen of Arctostaphylospatula Greene collected by Mary Strong Clemens from California Botanic Garden Herbarium, where the loss of the prefix “Mrs” has led to the specimen being mis-attributed to her husband. URI:https://cch2.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3895834. Catalogue number RSA0178692 (©California Botanic Garden Herbarium, CC BY-NC-SA).

Figure 1d.

Figure 1d.

The label of a specimen of Thymusserpyllum L. collected by Elizabeth Gertrude Britton in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Herbarium, but attributed to her husband Nathaniel Lord Britton in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. URI:http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32616a5e9-2143-490a-a0b3-a5d2546376de. Catalogue number US 132144Z (©Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, CC-0).