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West Indian Orchids Catalog

A grant from the MacArthur Foundation to the Association of Systematics Collections for facilitating the transfer of taxonomic information between Cuba and North America has provided funds for the New York Botanical Garden to catalog its West Indian Orchidaceae specimens. Locality data below the County/Municipality level have been removed from these records to protect species from becoming potentially threatened or endangered.

Click on the link below to see a list of taxa currently available in the Catalog. Each taxon name is a link that will generate a list containing all available records with this name. To tailor a search to suit your specific research needs, simply click on the button below and you will be presented with a query form.

List of taxa currently available in Catalog

To search the West Indian Orchids Catalog by the name of the plant (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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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: "B*" in the Country field will return specimen records from "Bermuda," "Bahamas," etc.)

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

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 "jamaicense" finds specimens of Arpophyllum jamaicense, Epidendrum jamaicense, etc.
Example 2: the term "Schltr." finds specimen records of numerous taxa described by Friedrich Schlechter.

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