Polyclave

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Polyclave is a currently little-used term for a multi-access or interactive identification key.[1][2] It was more frequently used in the past in reference to "card-identification-keys" (which were made from computer punch cards used to operate early computers.[3]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Duke, J. A. 1969. On tropical tree seedlings. I. Seeds, seedlings, systems, and systematics. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 56:125-229.
  2. ^ Morse, L. E. 1971. Specimen identification and key construction with time-sharing computers. Taxon 20:269–82.
  3. ^ Pankhurst, R. J. 1992. Practical Taxonomic Computing.