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Vascular Plant Types Catalog

The New York Botanical Garden has completed cataloging and imaging its approximately 92,000 vascular plant type specimens. Basic information from all types in these families has been captured in the database, but some of the records are more complete than others.

The digitization of the vascular plant type specimens was funded by a grant from the Xerox Foundation. Students in the Biomedical Photographic Communications Department of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Xerox provided technical assistance. The Imaging Manual created by RIT can be downloaded by anyone insterested in learning more about the technical aspects behind our project.

To browse the available taxa for the Vascular Plant Types Catalog, see the checklist below.

Note that not all paratypes are indicated as such on specimen annotation labels (they are often only noted as "type" or "cotype"), and known paratypes are not included in this catalog. To find specimens of paratypes, use the Quick Search option of our Search All Catalogs page.

To search the Vascular Plant Types Catalog by the name of the plant (family, genus, species, or subspecific epithet), author, collector, collector number, barcode number, or type status, use the Quick Search box below. To search one or more specific fields in the database, choose the Advanced Search.


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 Advanced Search
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.
Continent Examples: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Central America, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, West Indies
Country Avoid abbreviations. Examples: Netherlands Antilles; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; 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 Australia," "South Carolina,"etc.)

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

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 "wrightii" finds specimens of Polypodium wrightii, Ficus wrightii, etc.
Example 2: the term "Stafleu" finds specimen records of numerous taxa described by Frans A. Stafleu.

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


Vascular Plant Types Checklist

Browse the alphabetical list of available families below. Click on a family name to see a checklist of taxa for that family. Please note that search times are proportional to the number of records in a family. Clicking on a family link below requires that the database be searched and the list of taxa be generated dynamically. This will take some time for those families with many records (i.e., hundreds or thousands).

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Family
Number of
Records
Acanthaceae
878
Aceraceae
91
Achatocarpaceae
2
Actinidiaceae
117
Agavaceae
178
Aizoaceae
13
Alangiaceae
3
Alismataceae
82
Aloeaceae
1
Amaranthaceae
215
Anacardiaceae
284
Annonaceae
754
Apiaceae
680
Apocynaceae
802
Aponogetonaceae
1
Aquifoliaceae
268
Araceae
485
Araliaceae
380
Araucariaceae
14
Arecaceae
616
Aristolochiaceae
87
Asclepiadaceae
698
Asteraceae
9989
Austrobaileyaceae
3
Balanopaceae
4
Balanophoraceae
3
Balsaminaceae
79
Basellaceae
2
Begoniaceae
191
Berberidaceae
71
Betulaceae
63
Bignoniaceae
447
Bixaceae
4
Bombacaceae
191
Boraginaceae
879
Brassicaceae
993
Bretschneideraceae
1
Bromeliaceae
463
Brunelliaceae
19
Bruniaceae
3
Buddlejaceae
50
Burmanniaceae
35
Burseraceae
313
Buxaceae
44
Cabombaceae
4
Cactaceae
639
Caesalpiniaceae
1472
Callitrichaceae
18
Calycanthaceae
4
Campanulaceae
596
Canellaceae
7
Cannabaceae
2
Cannaceae
8
Capparaceae
187
Caprifoliaceae
192
Caricaceae
22
Caryocaraceae
25
Caryophyllaceae
480
Casuarinaceae
3
Cecropiaceae
99
Celastraceae
261
Centrolepidaceae
1
Cephalotaxaceae
4
Ceratophyllaceae
9
Chenopodiaceae
244
Chloranthaceae
29
Chrysobalanaceae
683
Cistaceae
70
Clethraceae
61
Clusiaceae
753
Columelliaceae
4
Combretaceae
141
Commelinaceae
132
Connaraceae
124
Convolvulaceae
571
Coriariaceae
2
Cornaceae
39
Costaceae
48
Crassulaceae
351
Crossosomataceae
11
Crypteroniaceae
2
Cucurbitaceae
285
Cunoniaceae
83
Cupressaceae
65
Cuscutaceae
190
Cyanastraceae
1
Cycadaceae
17
Cyclanthaceae
28
Cymodoceaceae
5
Cyperaceae
2045
Cyrillaceae
20
Daphniphyllaceae
12
Datiscaceae
1
Degeneriaceae
1
Dialypetalanthaceae
1
Diapensiaceae
4
Dichapetalaceae
81
Dilleniaceae
110
Dioscoreaceae
226
Dipsacaceae
12
Dipterocarpaceae
76
Droseraceae
18
Ebenaceae
202
Elaeagnaceae
18
Elaeocarpaceae
175
Elatinaceae
17
Empetraceae
3
Epacridaceae
55
Ephedraceae
19
Eremolepidaceae
1
Ericaceae
1459
Eriocaulaceae
620
Erythroxylaceae
123
Eucryphiaceae
2
Euphorbiaceae
2593
Eupteleaceae
1
Fabaceae
4613
Fagaceae
435
Flacourtiaceae
408
Flagellariaceae
1
Fouquieriaceae
6
Frankeniaceae
7
Fumariaceae
64
Garryaceae
7
Gentianaceae
461
Geraniaceae
123
Gesneriaceae
551
Gnetaceae
6
Goodeniaceae
16
Grossulariaceae
110
Gunneraceae
9
Haemodoraceae
12
Haloragaceae
31
Hamamelidaceae
34
Hanguanaceae
1
Heliconiaceae
44
Hernandiaceae
45
Hippocastanaceae
6
Hippocrateaceae
131
Hugoniaceae
14
Humiriaceae
42
Hydrangeaceae
97
Hydrocharitaceae
18
Hydrophyllaceae
283
Icacinaceae
113
Illiciaceae
18
Iridaceae
293
Irvingiaceae
1
Ixonanthaceae
4
Joinvilleaceae
1
Juglandaceae
37
Julianiaceae
5
Juncaceae
250
Juncaginaceae
2
Kirkiaceae
1
Family
Number of
Records
Krameriaceae
30
Lacistemataceae
16
Lamiaceae
1125
Lardizabalaceae
12
Lauraceae
1563
Lecythidaceae
229
Leeaceae
18
Leitneriaceae
1
Lemnaceae
16
Lennoaceae
9
Lentibulariaceae
88
Liliaceae
727
Limnanthaceae
15
Limnocharitaceae
1
Linaceae
58
Lissocarpaceae
3
Loasaceae
152
Loganiaceae
221
Loranthaceae
220
Lythraceae
241
Magnoliaceae
89
Malesherbiaceae
14
Malpighiaceae
665
Malvaceae
891
Marantaceae
115
Marcgraviaceae
59
Mayacaceae
5
Melastomataceae
2180
Meliaceae
490
Melianthaceae
2
Mendonciaceae
24
Menispermaceae
271
Menyanthaceae
3
Mimosaceae
2215
Molluginaceae
6
Monimiaceae
116
Monotropaceae
18
Moraceae
501
Musaceae
4
Myoporaceae
18
Myricaceae
20
Myristicaceae
131
Myrsinaceae
527
Myrtaceae
1436
Najadaceae
11
Nepenthaceae
10
Nolanaceae
4
Nyctaginaceae
287
Nymphaeaceae
34
Nyssaceae
11
Ochnaceae
148
Olacaceae
125
Oleaceae
222
Onagraceae
489
Opiliaceae
13
Orchidaceae
1270
Orobanchaceae
18
Oxalidaceae
240
Paeoniaceae
2
Pandanaceae
170
Papaveraceae
82
Passifloraceae
140
Pedaliaceae
4
Penaeaceae
2
Pentaphragmataceae
6
Pentaphylacaceae
5
Phytolaccaceae
20
Picramniaceae
8
Pinaceae
92
Piperaceae
2051
Pittosporaceae
33
Plantaginaceae
47
Platanaceae
5
Plumbaginaceae
15
Poaceae
2685
Podocarpaceae
65
Podostemaceae
42
Polemoniaceae
311
Polygalaceae
335
Polygonaceae
1448
Pontederiaceae
16
Portulacaceae
171
Potamogetonaceae
80
Primulaceae
189
Proteaceae
412
Pteridophyte
3664
Pyrolaceae
24
Quiinaceae
40
Rafflesiaceae
16
Ranunculaceae
648
Rapateaceae
182
Resedaceae
18
Restionaceae
98
Rhabdodendraceae
7
Rhamnaceae
300
Rhizophoraceae
39
Rosaceae
1700
Rubiaceae
3487
Ruppiaceae
5
Rutaceae
622
Sabiaceae
80
Saccifoliaceae
2
Salicaceae
219
Salvadoraceae
1
Santalaceae
48
Sapindaceae
483
Sapotaceae
481
Sarraceniaceae
28
Saxifragaceae
321
Schisandraceae
30
Scrophulariaceae
1855
Simaroubaceae
15
Smilacaceae
80
Solanaceae
1234
Sparganiaceae
8
Stackhousiaceae
2
Staphyleaceae
24
Stemonaceae
3
Sterculiaceae
353
Stylidiaceae
4
Styracaceae
80
Surianaceae
2
Symplocaceae
190
Taccaceae
1
Tamaricaceae
4
Taxaceae
4
Tepuianthaceae
8
Tetracentraceae
1
Tetrameristaceae
1
Theaceae
363
Theophrastaceae
72
Thymelaeaceae
272
Tiliaceae
275
Tovariaceae
1
Trigoniaceae
22
Triuridaceae
8
Trochodendraceae
2
Tropaeolaceae
31
Turneraceae
78
Ulmaceae
72
Urticaceae
464
Valerianaceae
150
Velloziaceae
78
Verbenaceae
1928
Violaceae
294
Viscaceae
223
Vitaceae
127
Vochysiaceae
159
Winteraceae
11
Xanthophyllaceae
31
Xanthorrhoeaceae
3
Xyridaceae
248
Zamiaceae
139
Zingiberaceae
139
Zosteraceae
7
Zygophyllaceae
36

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