Ignore the type

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You really need to finish more important tasks. Besides, you have a tuna salad sandwich calling your name. The specimen doesn't even have a barcode, no one will miss it. You file the type specimen into the general collection and finish your tasks in record time.


A few years later, botany graduate student Liana LaPlante is writing a monograph on an important but neglected genus. There's some confusion over the application of a name and she really needs to see the type, but she can't a record of it in NY's virtual herbarium. You no longer remember your neglegence, but it is you Liana is cursing in frustration.