Plant Taxonomy: Ultraviolet Patterns of Flowers Visible as Fluorescent Patterns in Pressed Herbarium Specimens

2 February 1973

journal article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 179 (4072) , 486-487
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.179.4072.486

Abstract

Pressed flowers, in herbarium specimens, show visible fluorescent patterns matching the invisible ultraviolet patterns that the flowers show in life. The technique is taxonomically applicable since it makes an important but usually neglected floral character readily demonstrable.

Keywords

ULTRAVIOLET PATTERNS
PRESSED
HERBARIUM
TAXONOMICALLY
NEGLECTED
INVISIBLE
FLORAL
READILY

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Ultraviolet Video-Viewing: The Television Camera as an Insect Eve
Science, 1969