date.

They may also be a repository of viable seeds for rare species.

Institutional herbaria

Many universities, museums, and botanical gardens maintain herbaria. Each is assigned an alphabetic code in the Index Herbariorum, between one and eight letters long.

The largest herbaria in the world, in approximate order of decreasing size, are:
* Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P) (Paris, France)

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