Organizing and Annotating the Monocots!

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for visiting out Blog!

During the past couple of weeks, I have been working heavily on organizing and annotating the Monocots we have here at the Herbarium!

Our Monocots take up 3 cabinets here at CMC and they are the most challenging group to organize for some reasons:

1. Within the Monocots we have the families Cyperaceae, Poaceae and Juncaceae. These 3 families are very big, meaning they have looooots of genera and species!
2. A lot of name changes happened recently (Scirpus is one good example. Many species of this genus were transfered to Schoenoplectus and other genera!) in such families.
3. At last, our 3 monocots cabinets were a bit unorganized, in a way that we had many specimens of different species in the same folders and everywhere in the cabinet.

I also found many specimens that needed to be accessioned already filled in the collection.

All of these things slow down our organizing process a lot, but I am happy to tell the world that two of these cabinets are down and we "only" have one more to go!

A big thank to Adriane and Abbie that helped during many steps of the organization process!

Until next post,

Emilie