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Storytelling with IndExs

2026-01-09T09:09:22Z

Dtriebel: /* Storytelling with IndExs */

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,548 exsiccata series
|*2,096 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*147 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,461 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*617 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*934 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
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Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
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The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
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IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
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The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find (currently 74) series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Cummings'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Eaton_Cummings Clara Eaton Cummings])
*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
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The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
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There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
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issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,500 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
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===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

2026-01-05T16:36:22Z

Dtriebel: key numbers updated, status January 5th 2026

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,548 exsiccata series
|*2,096 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*147 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,461 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*617 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*934 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Cummings'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Eaton_Cummings Clara Eaton Cummings])
*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,500 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08. For occasional content improvement see [https://istc.cetaf.org/index.php?title=Storytelling_with_IndExs&action=history Wiki Page History].''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-11-27T11:27:09Z

Dtriebel: adding another woman as editor

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,518 exsiccata series
|*2,052 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,369 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*597 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*929 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Cummings'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Eaton_Cummings Clara Eaton Cummings])
*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,500 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

2025-10-04T12:00:04Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,518 exsiccata series
|*2,052 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,369 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*597 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*929 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,500 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
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===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

2025-09-21T14:25:06Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,518 exsiccata series
|*2,052 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,369 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*597 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*929 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
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===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

2025-09-20T21:03:57Z

Dtriebel: counts in table 1 updated

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,518 exsiccata series
|*2,052 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,369 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*615 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*929 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
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===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

2025-08-15T09:40:53Z

Dtriebel: counts in table 1 updated

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,482 exsiccata series
|*2,015 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,367 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*610 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*920 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
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===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08. For occasional content improvement see [https://istc.cetaf.org/index.php?title=Storytelling_with_IndExs&action=history Wiki Page History].''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-08-15T09:36:15Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*610 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*920 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08. For occasional content improvement see [https://istc.cetaf.org/index.php?title=Storytelling_with_IndExs&action=history Wiki Page History].''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-08-14T11:54:06Z

Dtriebel: linguistic improuvement

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria might have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08. For occasional content improvement see [https://istc.cetaf.org/index.php?title=Storytelling_with_IndExs&action=history Wiki Page History].''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-07-21T08:35:02Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen Aino Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08. For occasional content improvement see [https://istc.cetaf.org/index.php?title=Storytelling_with_IndExs&action=history Wiki Page History].''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-07-21T08:33:35Z

Dtriebel: adding Aino Henssen as example for women as editors

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Henssen'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aino_Henssen]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08. For occasional content improvement see [https://istc.cetaf.org/index.php?title=Storytelling_with_IndExs&action=history Wiki Page History].''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-05-31T17:37:01Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
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There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
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===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

2025-05-24T15:23:04Z

Dtriebel: adding numbers from IH Report 2024

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections, that means around 5 % of the estimated 400 million specimens (see [https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The_World_Herbaria_2024-.pdf IH Report 2024])
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-05-12T09:37:18Z

Dtriebel: adding info on search for "iter "

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model for supporting expeditions'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

... ''for "iter "'' to find series devoted to collection trips and expeditions

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

2025 Spring Meeting

2025-04-30T08:57:39Z

Dtriebel: adding info on the presentation of IndExs

= CETAF Information Science & Technology Commission - Spring 2025 Meeting =
'''Bonn, April 7-8 2025'''
== Venue ==
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change 
Museum Koenig 
Raiffeisenhaus 
Adenauerallee 127 
53113 Bonn, Germany
(First floor, on the right. Please follow the signs!)

== Participants ==
* Anton Güntsch (FUB-BGBM, DE)
* Dominik Röpert (FUB-BGBM, DE)
* David Fichtmüller (FUB-BGBM, DE)
* Quentin Groom (Meise Botanic Garden, BE)
* Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden, BE)
* Maarten Trekels (Meise Botanic Garden, BE)
* Jiri Frank (NM, CZ)
* Adam Cironis (NM, CZ)
* Wouter Addink (Naturalis, NL)
* Dagmar Triebel (SNSB, DE)
* Stefan Seifert (SNSB, DE)
* Sabine von Mering (MfN, DE)
* Caitlin Thorn (MfN, DE)
* <s>Jonas Grieb (SGN, DE)</s>
* Claus Weiland (SGN, DE)
* <s>Anke Penzlin (SGN, DE)</s>
* André De Mûelenaere (Africamuseum, BE)
* Franck Theeten (Africamuseum, BE)
* Björn Quast (LIB, Bonn, DE)
* Birgit Rach (LIB, Bonn, DE)
* Cristina Garilao (LIB, Hamburg, DE)
* <s>Laura Tilley (CETAF, BE)</s>
* Ana Casino (CETAF, BE)
* Glorioso Alessio (CETAF, BE)
* Nicky Nicolson (Kew, UK)
* Arianna Salili-James (NHM, UK)
* Theary Ung (MNHN, Paris, FR)
* Laurent Gohy (ULiège, BE) - first day
* Alex (CETAF)
* Robin Drinkwater (RBGE, Edinburgh)

== Agenda ==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2" | ------------------------------------------------------------ Day 1 - April 7 ------------------------------------------------------------
|-
| '''12:00 - 13:00''' || '''Arrival and lunch'''
|-
| 13:00 - 13:30 || Welcome, introduction of participants, agenda, logistics
|-
| 13:30 - 14:00 || The new ISTC Wiki and future ISTC documentation
|-
| 14:00 - 15:15 || CMS Subgroup - Introduction of the new subgroup - Presentations of CMS-related activities in CETAF collections * [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/1/15/01_theeten_presentation_isct_2025.pdf Frank Theeten] * [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f_mICa50WKusn94CXW0IhELABTsx4IkV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114384447688591455468&rtpof=true&sd=true/ Maarten Trekels] * [https://istc.cetaf.org/File:03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf Stefan Seifert] * <s>Jonas Grieb</s> * [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/8/89/2025-04-07_JACQ_ISTC_Bonn.pdf Dominik Röpert] - Discussion of possible activities of the CMS subgroup and structuring of the collaboration
|-
| '''15:15 - 15:45''' || '''Coffee break'''
|-
| 15:45 - 17:00 || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UdHPtT6nYadYRgZjgOPMgDlTksrdO-CrbhMgFswh2YM/edit?usp=sharing/ AI, Robotics and Digital Collections Subgroup] - Introduction of the new subgroup - Examples of currently ongoing initiatives - Discussion of possible activities of the AI subgroup and structuring of the collaboration
|-
| 17:00 - 17:30 || Cancelled: <s>Establishment of a new Center for Knowledge Literacy and Biodiversity Informatics at the LIB (Peter Grobe)</s>
|-
| '''17:30''' || '''End of day one'''
|-
| ''19:00 -'' || ''Dinner at Tuscolo, [https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.73294&mlon=7.09964#map=16/50.73294/7.09964 Gerhard-von-Are-Straße 8], 53111 Bonn (self paid)''
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2" | ------------------------------------------------------------ Day 2 - April 8 ------------------------------------------------------------
|-
| 9:00 - 10:00 || [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gnCnZgJml1dKllMoK62A8l5x93Hpmbse9Cd80TVzl98/ Type specimen initiative]
|-
| 10:00 - 11:00 || Guided tour
|-
| '''11:00 - 11:20''' || '''Coffee break'''
|-
| 11:20 - 12:20 || Misc presentations (projects, initiatives, ideas, ...): - Indexing of research expeditions and linking to semantic entities (Sabine von Mering) - Cancelled: <s>Enhancing geological specimen data (Laura Tilley)</s> - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jQp0TKJhnbKCG_IHmNmQaIHOKTQIN7GAbQbsMx-The8/edit?usp=sharing Update on MAS development in DiSSCo] (Wouter Addink) - Exsiccata series in botanical and mycological collections: [[Storytelling with IndExs|Storytelling]] with [http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs], demo (Dagmar Triebel)
|-
| 12:20 - 12:45 || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y4VsXEjCGDRzL7_fEMRYpqcgiD-9WUey/edit?slide=id.p2#slide=id.p2 Funding opportunities]
|-
| 12:45 - 13:00 || AOB
|-
| '''13:00''' || '''End of meeting (and packet lunch)'''
|}
== Minutes ==
=== Day 1 ===
==== The new ISTC Wiki and future ISTC documentation ====
==== CMS Subgroup ====
* Presentations are linked in the agenda
* Question to Maarten: Can the tender for their new system be published? Answer: Tender contains some confidential data, but once this has been cleared, it can be shared.
==== AI, Robotics and Digital Collections Subgroup ====
* Presentation is linked in the agenda
* Presentation by Maarten:
** DiSSCo Flanders: second phase with a stronger emphasis on specimen enrichment
** Some work done at University Ghent
** Common steps: straightening, segmenting, multi plant detection, Label OCR, Leaf extraction, identifications for specimen without any (or only rough)
** Future ideas: morphological feature extraction
* Laurent (digitization manager at University Liege): Automating Herbarium Sheet Data Extraction with AI
** specimen QR-Code photographed with camera
** directly read label information with Google Lens
** separate the labels in fields in next step
* Arianna: AI at the [Natural History] Museum [UK]
** topics AI for Digitization / collection
*** Use Cases: General Knowledge Base, based on all information in the collection, trait recognition, insect digitization,
*** Robotic Arm for pinned objects: scan drawer, recognize pins, select pin for handling, move it to photography station, take images of insect from multiple angles and label
** NHM AI Lab (also for general science questions),
*** E.g. Classifications for animal hair or diatoms,
*** Outreach via AI Coffee Lab or Hybrid Lunches, collaboration with the Turing Institute and UCL
** DCMS x NHM AI Pilot program (UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
*** People could propose projects, 5 selected.
*** Topics: herbarium: chat bot that answers from the perspective of a known collector
*** Segmentation and part
*** Data extraction based on old index cards
*** AI Alt text Generation
*** Predict species of reptiles based on confiscated fashion products: is the product illegal or not
* General Discussion/Next Steps (sorted by the questions suggested by Arianna)
** What is currently going on, in your institutions?
** What are hurdles to AI techniques?
*** Questionable moralities of the companies behind the LLMs (Copyright?)
*** Power consumption
*** Local or OpenSource LLMs as an alternative?
** How can robotics benefit digital collections?
** How can CETAF facilitate this better?
*** Big wins come from scaling it up to millions of specimen instead of just a couple of ones.
*** Run tools on all of CETAF collections, e.g. search for the signature of a collector
*** DiSSCo Machine Annotation service could help to move the data out of silos
*** This group could help with comparison of the different approaches, quality checks. This could be done on a benchmark subset, but will require a lot of work for a high quality ground truth. Can the creation of this dataset be automated?
*** Maybe additional funding as a COST action? Relevance?
*** Infrastructure requirements: who does this
*** Use Case: Structure unstructured data, could be relevant for the GBIF Capacity Enhancement Program, WFO and PlantNet have a similar approach.
** Mode on which the working group will operate
*** Many colleagues are working on it, but not in particular projects, general interest to continue.
*** How to keep in touch. Slack channel? Free channels will lose old posts.
*** Google Spreadsheet to have an overview who is working on what.
*** Github group
*** DiSSCo will have Hackathons for the Machine Annotation Service.
*** Goal: find a specific target/goal/project that allows everybody in work on it and shows the potential but it also small enough to be managable
*** Best practices for organizing a hackathon: there is one from the Biohackathon community.

=== Day 2 ===
==== Type Specimen Initiative ====
* additional detailed notes in the Google Doc that is linked in the agenda
* Sabine: Wikidata and Research Conference in Florence in June,
** Highlight the importance of the type specimen collections, Compile a list of type cataloges in Wikidata. Multilinguality is a strong advantage here, connected to different external identifiers. 300+ already imported. Please send Sabine other examples of other published type catalogues.
* Nicky: maybe publish list also to Zetoro. Possible to do this via API.
* There is a strong focus on zoology, but there are some from botany as well.
* Also look at extra list of typifications from other publications, e.g. Wildenowia.

* There is a discussion in the wikidata community, on whether all of the type specimens should be in Wikidata. There are some in there already. Alternative would be to have a dedicated place.
* TRE would be one of the places. Type specimens from GBIF connected to their names from IPNI. The alternative approach would be to start from literature and try to find the cooresponding specimen. The TRE data model is a bit different from Wikidata. Not all institutions properly export their type records properly to GBIF, in particular via JSTOR.
* Typfied Name is suggested to DwC, but it has been long in discussion. With that it would be a lot nicer to share type data.
* Hosted Portal with a subset from GBIF of all of the specimen that claim to be types.
* Also look at the registries, e.g. for mycology, which are their precisely for that reason. Different fields have different practices: registration,
* In particular it is difficult to find lectotypes.
* There are inconsistencies with how type information should be expressed in DwC. GBIF interprets it differently.
* The TRE is a useable approach to demonstrate the data model, importing all type specimen into Wikidata could be possible.
* While it might look, like the information about types is static, there is some changes, e.g. holotypes become lectotypes. Wikidata could handle those changes, as well as contradicting information. Synchronization is still an issue, there are a lot of data changes in GBIF for type data for example.
* There could still be a use case for keeping a dedicated Wikibase for the type specimens and just interlinking it with Wikidata via links and federated queries.
* The new version of the Taxonomic Concept Standard is up for review at TDWG, this might change the way that taxon names are shared with GBIF.
* Next steps: Which other infrastructures might be interested in a type catalogue? DiSSCo or GBIF. Proof-of-Concept will be delivered in TETTRIs, so the next further steps could be build in TETTRIs Next.

==== Other Presentations ====
* Indexing of research expeditions and linking to semantic entities (Sabine)
** Proposed as a group in TDWG a couple of years ago, is now a Task Group in TDWG
** Goal: get identifiers for expeditions, historic and contemporary
** Compile basic metadata: time, participants, …
** Link to related external entities
** Possibly an extension to DwC in the future
** Identified several applicable wikidata properties
** Issues with colonial historic background, e.g. outdated country names
** Tool to visualize journeys using Wikidata and GBIF: https://www.expeditia.info/
** 24. April: TDWG Working Group Session on Research Expeditions
** Discussion:
*** RAiD Identifier: https://raid.org/ Research Activity Identifier (doesn’t have a Wikidata Property yet)
*** Is the term expedition a bit outdated? Expedition might imply trips to undiscovered or under developed regions. Should it be a more generic Research Event?
*** Could this be expressed using Latimer Core, as a virtual collection of specimens that have the expedition in common and it would allow for estimates how many

* DiSSCo Machine Annotation Services (MAS), Wouter
** [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jQp0TKJhnbKCG_IHmNmQaIHOKTQIN7GAbQbsMx-The8/edit?usp=sharing Presentation]
** Annotation Motivations: Commenting, Adding, Editing, Assessing, Deleting,
** Target Types: Term, Class, Region of Interest (in images)
** Existing services can be adopted to DiSSCo Data Model using Wrappers
** MAS Service Providers need to: Create a MAS Service and test in sandbox, get code reviewed, Service Delivery Plan and SLA
** Current Test Cases: Plant Organ Detection, AI4Labels,
** Recently: MAS Hackathon, a lot of participants, 3 new services were created.
** INDEED Tool to train quality model to judge the parts of AI based Herbarium Sheet segmentation
** Limitations: Images are not hosted by DiSSCo only the links, a centralized storage would make processing a log easier.
** Quality Control is important.

* Index of Exsiccatae (Dagmar)
** http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/
** Detailed documentation at [[Storytelling with IndExs]]
** More than 2.400 series of duplicate specimens with printed numbered labels, the eldest once in bounded volumes, but regularily integrated in the general collections of herbaria
** Database great for storytelling about exsiccatal series (duplicate specimen series) in herbaria, e.g. towards EU funders to point on the existing international network of collections
** This could be a different use-case for Latimer Core.

==== Any Other Business ====
* Anton will send around a draft of the new charter
* Subgroups will meet and take all of the input from this meeting in consideration.

== Logistics ==
=== Hotels ===
* ACHAT Sternhotel Bonn, Markt 8, 53111 Bonn, 90€
* IntercityHotel Bonn, Quantiusstraße 22, 53115 Bonn, 100€
* Hotel Motel One, Am Hauptbahnhof 12, and Berliner Freiheit 36, 53111 Bonn, 100€
* Hotel Kurfürstenhof, Baumschulallee 20, 53115 Bonn, 90€
* Beethoven Hotel Dreesen, Bonngasse 17, Zentrum, 53111 Bonn, 90€
* My Südstadt Bonn, Kaiserstraße 221, 53113 Bonn, 90€> (very close to Museum Koenig, but rooms are very noisy towards Kaiserstraße)
* For those who like it unusual: BaseCamp Hostel Bonn, In d. Raste 1, 53129 Bonn, 70€

Hotels on a map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/c6P5W2taKKTZD8HJ6

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-25T14:41:12Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"'', ''Martius'', ''Macoun''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

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Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
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issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2,400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-19T20:18:20Z

Dtriebel: error corrected

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
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issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-19T18:39:31Z

Dtriebel: corr

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-*Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden]
*''Verseghy'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
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issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-19T18:38:22Z

Dtriebel: Layout improved

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like

*''Eastwood'' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood])
*''Feinbrun-Dothan'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan]
*''Patterson'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson]
*''Savich-Lyubitskaya'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-*Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya]
*''Tilden'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden] and *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]''

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
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issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-17T14:53:17Z

Dtriebel: adding info on women as editors

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Wambaugh_Patterson Flora Wambaugh Patterson], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]''

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-17T14:45:10Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy of specimens'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]''

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-17T14:43:15Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
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The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy in general'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy. IndExs has registered a number of series devoted to the legacy of plant and fungi collectors unter the title "Reliquiae...".

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... ''for further women as editors like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]''

... ''for "Reliqu"'' (specimens as legacy of collectors)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-17T14:34:12Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
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The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
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The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
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After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
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Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacy'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
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Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)
... ''for other women as editors like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]''

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
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Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
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issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-17T14:31:22Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
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The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae and legacies'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 95 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)
... ''for other women as editors like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood Alice Eastwood], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Feinbrun-Dothan Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Savich-Lyubitskaya Lidiya Ivanovna Savich-Lyubitskaya], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Tilden Josephine Elizabeth Tilden] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_Verseghy Klára Verseghy]''

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-13T09:50:25Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
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|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-13T09:49:44Z

Dtriebel: refernce to DWB contribution added

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (CETAF ISTC contribution, 2025-04-07, see [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/0/04/03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf here]):

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-13T09:25:34Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench (see contribution of Stefan Seifert, 2025-04-07 [[File:03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf|here]]:

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-12T15:31:10Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench:

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|*2,454 exsiccata series
|*1,972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1,363 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-12T11:20:12Z

Dtriebel:

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench:

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|*2450 exsiccata series
|*1972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1362 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on a contribution held by Dagmar Triebel (SNSB) at the [[2025 Spring Meeting|CETAF ISTC Spring Meeting 2025]] in Bonn, 2025-04-08.''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-12T11:15:21Z

Dtriebel: added reference to meeting

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench:

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|*2450 exsiccata series
|*1972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1362 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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''This Wiki Page is based on the contribution of D. Triebel, held at the [[CETAF ISTC Spring meeting]] at 2025-04-08, Bonn''

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-12T11:09:40Z

Dtriebel: link to HUH added

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench:

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|*2450 exsiccata series
|*1972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1362 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|- style="background:#FFCBCB;"
|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: see also counting of HUH [https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=exsiccatae here])
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

----

Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-09T16:07:31Z

Dtriebel: wording improuved

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following there is a collection of short stories on exsiccatae using information received by using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories are thought to be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches with IndExs.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench:

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|*2450 exsiccata series
|*1972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1362 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: 6)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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Storytelling with IndExs

2025-04-09T15:50:53Z

Dtriebel: Text transferred from https://www.diversitymobile.net/wiki/Internal:IndExs_Storytelling

===Storytelling with IndExs===

You may know '''[http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs - Index of exsiccatae]'''. IndExs is a service to detect and identify exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series in herbaria and learn more about their role, history and cultural circumstances.

For details see [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/About.jsp IndExs Introduction Page] and the Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndExs_%E2%80%93_Index_of_Exsiccatae IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/exsiccata Exsiccata]

In the following I will tell you some short stories on exsiccatae using the [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp IndExs Search interface]. The stories might be an inspiration for communication officers and might facilitate storytelling approaches.

But at first some key numbers to describe the still growing content of IndExs with the underlying databases which use moduls of the Diversity Workbench:

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|*2450 exsiccata series
|*1972 exsiccata series with example images
|*only c. 33 series are in progress
|*18-20 million exsiccata specimens are integrated in herbarium collections
|*>110 herbaria with image examples of exsiccata specimens are included in IndExs
|*1362 persons act as exsiccata editors
|*580 exsiccata editors have EN Wikipedia articles, all citing IndExs records, see [https://linkcount.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Exsiccata Exsiccata linkcount] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 Exsiccata - linked pages]
|*913 exsiccata series are found in the herbarium collection M (other herbaria will have more)
|}

1. '''Early Exsiccatae in bound volumes for sale'''

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|Herbarium portatile
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199907 Jan, Herb. Port.] 1820
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Jan Georgio Jan]
|}

Jan offered herbaria and exsiccatae for purchase to scientific academies and princely courts (luxus editions), e.g. on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna Congress of Vienna] 1815, where he made a deal with the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In herbaria those luxus editions are often stored in the original bound volumes, see online list of BM exsiccatae.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for other thematically similar series with e.g., "Alp" in the titles or search for editor "Mueller" and "Renquist" to find series sold for educational purposes''

2. '''Notable botanists of the 19th century with widely distributed series and funded digitisation projects today'''

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|Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=464504064 Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepat. Eur.] 1863-1879
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst]
|}

The well-known botanist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Ludwig_Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst], expert for cryptogamic plants and fungi issued more than 20 series (with many collectors and high editions). He cooperated with namely botanists as co-editors like Alexander Braun, Ernst Stizenberger und Carl Moritz Gottsche. A current project funded by the BioDATA Program of GBIF digitised one of his series (originally distributed as bound volumes) with liverworts in Kiew herbarium (CWU). Information on digitised bounded volumes [https://karazin.ua/en/nauka/scientific-collaboration/biolohiia/dydzhytalizatsiia-kolektsii-herbariiu-kharkivskoho-natsiona/ here] and [https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0cb31d3e-b730-4d8f-8397-cb41b5215cd2 here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "notable" editors with stories'' (editors with EN Wikipedia articles are listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Exsiccata?hidetrans=1&hideimages=1 here])

3. '''Stories on international scientific cooperations behind labels like "Flora Texana exsiccata"'''

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|Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1874209407 Engelmann, Gray & Lindheimer, Lindheimer Fl. Texana Exs.] 1843-1848
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]
|}

IndExs gives information: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Lindheimer Ferdinand Lindheimer] as collector/ explorer cooperated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engelmann George Engelmann] and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray Asa Gray]. Gray was publisher of Darwins work in North America und connected botany science from Europe with North America. Together with Engelmann he orginised the determination, publication and distribution of this exsiccata among his colleagues and to recognized botanical organisations. Origin and history of the series is well documented [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/13/items/plantaelindheime1907blan/plantaelindheime1907blan.pdf here]

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for title parts on labels''; e.g., the series "Plants of Indian Territory" (1894-1895) [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=682975744 here] edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Bush_(botanist) Benjamin Bush] is remarkable because of its title. The Indian Territory (part of Oklahoma) existed until 1907.

4. '''Unio itineraria - an early society with an unique business model'''

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|Unio itineraria 1835
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1787913215 Frank, Unio Itin. 1835]
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria]
|}

The association [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unio_Itineraria Unio itineraria] of academic persons was established with support of the king of Würtemberg in 1825. The scientific society sent out botanists for expeditions in other countries. The stakeholders financially supported these expeditions by funds in advance with options (shares) to get the collected material. Until c. 1842 the society issued c. 15 exsiccatae. Joseph C. Frank´s expedition to Ohio in 1835 was financed by the U.i. Frank died in 1835 (from yellow fewer). After his death the U.I. issued a second series [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200114 Frank, Unio Itin. 1837]; see https://www.jstor.org/stable/4032788.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Unio itineraria"''

5. '''Plant specimen trade as business with botanists as dealer'''

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|F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=405417728 Dörfler, Karo Pl. Amur] c. 1900
|Ignaz Dörfler
|}

After mid of the 19th century single plant experts and explorers started to act as managers and dealers. Ignaz Dörfler with series like "F. Karo: Plantae Amuricae et Zeaënsae curavit I. Dörfler" (~ 1900) is an example. The life history of I. Dörfler is well documented [https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.48.48105 here].

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., "Hohenacker"''. The Journal "Herbarium. Organ zur Förderung des Austausches wissenschaftlicher Exsiccatensammlungen" appeared between 1908 and 1932 to offer such series for sale (single issues see [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/145692/ here] and [https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-5992 here])

6. '''Bacteria specimens hidden in herbaria?'''

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|Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=307188034 Thümen, Herb. Mycol. Oecon.] c. 1879-1880
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Th%C3%BCmen Felix von Thümen]
|}

Von Thümen was interested in pathogens as well as in the economic use of fungi and bacteria. He issued important exsiccata series. ''Bacillus anthracis'' was distributed in several series between around 1875 and 1885. For stories on these anthrax samples in herbarium collections see [https://news.illinois.edu/digitization-project-finds-anthrax-samples-in-collections/ here] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32098212/ here]

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for bacteria'' or one of the 7 group(s) of organisms as category (e.g. combined with other selection criteria)

*fungi/lichens
*algae/cyanobacteria
*bacteria/viruses
*bryophytes
*pteridophytes
*spermatophytes
*zoocecidia/mines

7. '''Women as editors of exsiccatae'''

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|Plantae cryptogamicae quas in Arduenna collegit M. A. Libert
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=379493534 Libert, Pl. Crypt. Arduenna] 1830-1837
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_Libert Marie-Anne Libert]
|}

Marie-Anne Libert is one of the 99 notable female editors/ co-editors of exsiccatae. She was a famous botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist. She described several fungal taxa from the Ardennes in the series "Pl. Crypt. Arduenna" with short diagnosis on the printed labels. The name novelities are valid and legitimate, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/89990 here]. In general, type specimens are often distributed in exsiccatae.

After her death, Felix von Thümen distributed the series [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200043 Thümen, Mycoth. Univ. Reliqu. Libert.] devoted to her legacy.

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|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for "Reliqu"'' (legacy)

8. '''An exsiccata for the participants of the 4th Botanical Congress in Genua 1892'''

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|Selectae stirpes Liguriae
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=892133760 Penzig, Sel. Stirp. Ligur.] 1892
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Julius_Otto_Penzig Julius Otto Penzig]
|}

Penzig offered the (non-uniform) sets of the exsiccata-like series to non-Italian participants of the congress and gave a lecture on this. Specimens are found in several major herbaris. The labels (two colours) are assumed to be lithographs.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for 1400 editors like "Penzig"''

9. '''Scientific societies: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|Flora Lusitanica (Soc. Brot. 1. anno)
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199942 Anonymous, Fl. Lusit. (Soc. Brot. 1)] 1880-1906
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broterian_Society Sociedade Broteriana]
|}

The series was issued for 26 years. The species lists were published in the journal of the society, distributed among members of the society and botany enthusiasts, often outside of the academic world.

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Appal"'' (one of the results [http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199994 Anonymous, South. Appal. Bot. Club 01 Distr. Southeast. Pl.])

10. '''Plant exchange organisations: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series with printed labels'''

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|- style="background:#B3B7FF;"
|Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen
|[http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=878625024 Lambinon, Soc. Éch. Pl. Vasc. Eur. Bass. Médit.] until 2004
|Jacques Lambinon
|}

There existed more than 100 plant exchange organisations (see Website of C. N. Schröder [https://cnsflora.de/saxifraga_sponhemica/tauschorganisationen.php here]). Around 10 of them published this kind of series, among them famous and long-running series like those of the [http://www.bionat.ulg.ac.be/index.php?mn=6&pg=61 Société pour l'échange des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen]. This plant exchange organisation ended in 2004, after 90 years of existence. The association distributed finally nearly 20,000 numbered specimen units to their c. 30 member "institutions affiliées" and "membres associés" in exchange. The specimens had at least 30 duplicates. For 20 years organised by Jacques Lambinon (Liège herbarium).

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
|}
... ''for "Rochel", "Dauph", "Rub"'' etc.

11. '''Institutional herbaria: Exchange of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like specimen series as part of current exchange programs'''

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|Bryophyta selecta exsiccata
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199891 Inoue, Bryoph. Sel. Exs.], since 1970, last delivery in 2024
|Yuya Inoue
|}

issued by National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (TNS).

Two other examples of current series are:

* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147199717 Hafellner, Lichenicolous Biota] distributed by the Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität (GZU)
* [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2147200117 Khimich, Borovichev & Isaeva, Fungi Murmansk Reg. Exs.] distributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences Kola Science Centre (ARAN)

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|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|[https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/index.jsp Search]
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... ''for, e.g., for "Acade", "Muse", "Univ" and "Instit"''; results show series with an issuing organisation as part of the title, example [https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=992641686 Anonymous, Fl. Hung. Exs.] 1912-1932

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|- style="background:#FFCBCB;"
|'''Some suggestions in relation to IndExs'''
|- style="background:#B9FFC5;"
|*'''Do Storytelling''' and use the historical information on 2400 exsiccatae, especially that on those series which are in your herbarium collection
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content (e.g., for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Maximilian_Opiz Philipp Maximilian Opiz], who distributed [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/42520 six exsiccatae], all still without examplary images in IndExs)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Help to enhence IndExs content with additional exsiccatae or missing examplary labels (see search interface "exsiccatae without images")
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create a list of exsiccata series for your herbarium collection using the IndExs directory and the seven categories for organism groups (for M currently fu: 409, al: 63, ba: 15, br: 209, pt: 162, sp: 376, zo: 6)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs REST API (under construction, test version in JSON [https://services.snsb.info/indexs/api/v1/agents/41766 here]), e.g., for integrating exsiccata information in your collection dashboard
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Use IndExs information as resource for ground truth for AI models (e.g. label recognition in botanical and mycological collections)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Create an IndExs Custom (trained) AI model for text and images to build a technical service to recognize and validate exsiccata series from herbarium labels (for inspiration see https://www.transkribus.org/)
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|*Discuss the integration of IndExs in CETAF/ DiSSCo services
|-style="text-align:left; background:#D3D3D3;"
|}

===Further resources from Wikidata and SNSB services===

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID#IndExs_Exsiccata_Editor_ID

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605041958/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccatae

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605024027/https://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityExsiccataeModel_v2.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20221014100440/https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgents

https://web.archive.org/web/20230605033835/http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DiversityAgentsModel_2.1.9

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