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Issue: Vol. 756 No. 2: 14 May 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-05-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.756.2.11
Page range: 207-212
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When Damage Becomes Diagnostic: Cracked Herbarium Specimens Reveal a New Taxonomic Character in Heliamphora (Sarraceniaceae)

Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706
Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706
Eudicots Sarraceniaceae

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Walston, J.R.T. & Cameron, K.M. (2026) When Damage Becomes Diagnostic: Cracked Herbarium Specimens Reveal a New Taxonomic Character in Heliamphora (Sarraceniaceae). Phytotaxa 756 (2): 207–212. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.756.2.11