01 · The plant
Bycatch organisms
What else got pressed with the plant?
- Status
- Specified, unbuilt
- Field
- Empty — nobody is doing this
- Who wants it
- Entomology, lichenology, bryology.
Why it matters
Insects, spiders, lichens, bryophytes and epiphylls were preserved accidentally and recorded nowhere. Herbaria are unintentional entomological collections. Nobody has looked systematically.
What it needs
Detection at high resolution over sheets nobody indexed for this.
State of the art
Anecdotal. No systematic survey exists.
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