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Type status detection

Is this a type specimen the database does not know about?

Status
Specified, unbuilt
Field
Thin — some prior work
Who wants it
Taxonomists, nomenclatural databases.

Why it matters

Type specimens anchor every name in botany. Holotype is often written on the sheet and absent from the record. Each hit is nomenclaturally load-bearing.

What it needs

Detection of stamped and handwritten type annotations, plus the red slip convention.

State of the art

Some portals flag it; detection from image is uncommon.

The working set

1,271 sheets in the harvest match this head’s starting slice

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