DigiWeb Early practise Data entry of Oslo herbarium ©Mira Sääskilahti, Riitta Tegelberg

Species name Example: Betula pendula Write epithet always in small letter (even if it’s big letter in label) Write name from the newest label! Examples: Betula pendula Roth / Poa annua L. – Roth and L.: names of the fathers of the species -> do not write Roth or L. Genus Specific epithet

An example of the label Genus: Cyanotis Specific Epithet: foecunda Collected by: Bjørnstad, A. Collector's record number: AB 1508 Commelinaceae? Family name, do not write Usually family: -aceae or -ae If first name is entirely written, write full name: for e.g. Bjørnstad, Inger

Plant name, more than 2 words Examples Vaccinium vitis-idaea ‒Vaccinium = genus, vitis-idaea = specific epithet Brassica rapa ssp. rapa ‒ssp = subspecies -> do not write ssp. rapa ‒ssp. = subsp. Betula pendula var. carelica ‒var. = variety -> do not write var. carelica Betula pendula f. bircalensis f. = forma -> do not write f. bircalensis

Plant name, ? Salix glauca × myrsinifolia ‒Crossing between 2 species (S. glauca and S. myrsinifolia) Tilia × vulgaris – Crossing, own name (no fathers and mothers mentioned) You can use x instead of × Cucumis sativus ’Market More’ ‒’Market More’ is a commercial name –> do not write Poa sp./indet./alien/ignota = epithet not known, leave empty

Collected by: Widgren Notice: names may be only surnames, shortenings etc. Write what you see, someone may later fill the gaps

Collector's record number: 206 Why: after collector’s name. May also be next to date

Year: 1905 Why 1905? Old handwriting, use of XI. Why not 1805? Printed label

Country: Brazil. Why? Herbarium at Stockholm is Brasil Regnellian – specialised in Brasilian region Collected by: Regnell, A. F.

Country: Ecuador Collected by: Eggers, H. Year: 1893 (not 1993, because det – 1939)

Administrative place/state province: Madeira

904 is not Collector's record number. It’s not next to collector or date and it’s written later – in this case it's number of the genus. Other numbers occurring may be catalog / archive / etc. numbers

Note the tips in boxes!