Abstract
The great museums, herbaria and botanic gardens of the world are assuming a new importance, probably unimagined by their founders and largely unsuspected even a generation ago. Molecular methods have helped to reinvigorate the discipline of taxonomy, and the need for taxonomy as the basis for an inventory of biodiversity is greater than ever. Yet now, plant conservationists are also looking to these vast repositories of data to answer a much broader range of questions. We know the value of individual specimens; Daniel Janzen's eloquent plea, in the foreword to Plant Conservation, for the genetic ‘barcoding’ of all plant species is ambitious testimony to this.
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