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Out of the Museum Darkness: A mid-19th century bark drawing from Victoria, Australia

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  1. Centre for Economic Botany, Royal Botanic Gardens, TW9 3AE, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

    Caroline D. Servaes & Hew D. V. Prendergast

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Wageningen University & Research Centre, Postbus 8010, 6700 ED, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Caroline D. Servaes

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Servaes, C.D., Prendergast, H.D.V. Out of the Museum Darkness: A mid-19th century bark drawing from Victoria, Australia. Econ Bot 56, 7–9 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056[0007:OOTMDA]2.0.CO;2

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