2022 Volume 97 Issue 6 Pages 340-346
In general standard, 100% alpha cellulose paper or cotton acid-free paper is used as the mounting paper for specimens in herbarium. However, there are no companies in Japan that produce herbarium mounting papers which emphasize storage stability and preservation. As the only way to obtain cotton papers suitable for specimens is to import it, domestic herbaria have used wood-pulp printing papers domestically produced. Toward the standardization of specimen mounting papers in Japan, this article attempts to select the most suitable paper for herbarium specimens from the papers of practical use in Japan in consideration of economic efficiency, storage stability, and storability.
