clonotype

Noun.  (botany) herbarium specimens made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made. Clonotypes are of some use in documenting a type collection but have no status under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. The term is sometimes also used to refer to the living plants themselves.

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