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	William C. Steere, Bryologist W. C. Steere's 1949 Alaska Itinerary Bryologists Represented in the Steere Herbarium Major Floristic Works on North American Bryophytes based on Steere Herbarium specimens Herbaria with significant holdings of North American bryophytes What is a bryophyte? History of the Virtual Herbarium A Summary of Databasing Projects A Guide for Use of the Virtual Herbarium Treatment of Endangered and Threatened Plant Species Specimen Showcases Virtual Herbarium and Physical Specimen Loans Representative Collectors (bryophytes) How to Link to Our Specimen Data Useful References Acknowledgements

Search Bryophyte Type Specimens

We are in the process of cataloging all type specimens of bryophytes. Eventually all types will be imaged as well. This project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as part of their Types Initiative Project. These data will also be searchable through the Aluka website.

We estimate that The New York Botanical Garden contains approximately 25,000 type specimens of bryophytes. The list of collectors represented in the bryophyte herbarium indicates the type specimens likely to found here.

To search the Bryophyte Type Specimen Catalog by name (division, family, genus, species, or subspecific epithet), author, collector, collector number, barcode id, or type status, use the Basic Search box below. To search one or more specific fields in the database, choose the Detailed Search.

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Division
Family (most recent determination)
Scientific Name (most recent determination)		Searches the genus, species, infraspecies, and author abbreviations of a name.
Genus (most recent determination)
Species (most recent determination)
Subspecies/Variety/Form (most recent determination)
Family (all determinations)
Scientific Name (all determinations)		Searches the genus, species, infraspecies, and author abbreviations of a name.
Genus (all determinations)
Species (all determinations)
Subspecies/Variety/Form (all determinations)
Common Name
Determiner		Searches initials and last name.
Collector		Searches initials and last name.
Collection Number
Collection Date (dd mm yyyy)		One or more may be used to search the collection date.
Country		Avoid abbreviations. Examples: Netherlands Antilles; Papua New Guinea; United States of America
State/Province		Avoid abbreviations. Examples: Mato Grosso do Sul; Nevada; Santa Catarina
County/Municipality
City
Precise Location
Habitat
Plant Description
Substrate
Barcode		Unique NY-assigned specimen barcode number
Type Status		"Holotype," "Isotype," etc.
Records with Images		Limits searches to only those records with images or other multimedia attachments.
Records Per Page

Search Tips

Searches in the Virtual Herbarium are by default word-based. The fastest searches are made by using whole words as the criteria. Wildcard characters can be used to find partial words, but search times will be significantly longer.

Use an asterisk (*) as a substitute for any number of characters in a word. (Example: "South*" in the Province/State field will return specimen records from "South Dakota," "South Carolina," etc.)

Use an exclamation mark before a word to specifically exclude that word from the search. (Example: "Bryum" in the Genus field and "!alpinum" in the Species field will return all records of Bryum except Bryum alpinum.)

Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases. Words not enclosed by quotation marks will be used to return records with all of the words, but not necessarily in the order typed.

*The Scientific Name field searches the genus, species, infraspecies, and author abbreviations of a name.
Example 1: the search term "flexuosum" finds specimens of Hypnum flexuosum, Bryum flexuosum, etc.
Example 2: the term "Schimp." finds specimen records of numerous taxa described by Wilhelm P. Schimper.

Author abbreviations can be found using Harvard University Herbaria's Index of Botanists.


	Comments

	We are interested in comments from users about the new interface and any additional features that would be helpful. Please send these comments to: Barbara Thiers Herbarium Director bthiers@nybg.org