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herbarium

scientific collection of dried plants
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Summary

herbarium ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,544 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: botanical collection[2], organization[3], physical location[4]
  • Commons category: Herbaria[5]
  • Has part(s): botanical specimen[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Herbaria[7]
  • Commons gallery: Herbarium[8]
  • Described by source: Vlastenský slovník historický[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13]
  • Used by: botanist[14], ecologist[15]
  • Different from: herbal[16], rumen[17], plant collecting[18], herbarium specimen[19]

Why It Matters

herbarium has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] herbarium is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Cameroon National Herbarium Harvard University Herbaria and Libraries Herbier Louis-Marie Herbier National de Guinée Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Kew Gardens National Herbarium of Suriname organization Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Tsukuba Botanical Garden United States National Arboretum University of Kashmir vPlants

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0204017-herbare
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0204017-herbare, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → herbal, rumen, plant collecting +1
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2353794
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → botanical collection, organization, physical location
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 24896, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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