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Neotropical Flora and Mycota Catalog
The tropics include the region of the earth's surface between the
Tropic of Cancer (23°27'N) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23°27'S)
and comprise about 40% of the earth's land surface. The Paleotropics include
African and Southeast Asian tropical areas while the Neotropics are the
tropics of the Western Hemisphere, including southern Mexico, Central America,
most of South America, and the West Indies.
The tropics contain an overwhelmingly large number of the world's living
species and, as a result, continue to be the focus of intensive biological
exploration and research. Currently, the Neotropical flora and mycota consist
of approximately 90,000 species of flowering plants, 550,000 fungi, 13,500
lichens, 7,000 bryophytes, 3,400 pteridophytes, 150 gymnosperms and 6,000
algae.
The aim of this catalog is to provide researchers with immediate access
to The New York Botanical Garden's Neotropical collections and a link to
information, from the checklists below, on each taxon name through the Missouri
Botanical Garden's VAST
(VAScular Tropicos) and MOST
(MOSs Tropicos) systems. The catalog contains records from the countries listed in the table below.
Countries Included in the Catalog
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- Anguilla
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina (only States Formosa, Jujuy & Salta)
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bolivia
- Brazil (except States Santa Catarina & Rio Grande do Sul)
- Chile (only States Atacama & Tarapaca)
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
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- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Montserrat
- Netherlands Antilles
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Paraguay
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Peru
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Puerto Rico
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St. Kitts & Nevis
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St. Lucia
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Suriname
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Trinidad & Tobago
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United States (only Dade & Monroe Counties, Florida)
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Venezuela
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Virgin Islands (U.K.)
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Virgin Islands (U.S.)
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To search the American Bryophyte Catalog by the name of the plant or fungus (family, genus, species, or subspecific epithet), author, collector, collector number, barcode number, 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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