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Lichens of Eastern North America

The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium is cataloging its collections of lichens. Special emphasis is the Ozark region of North America. As of July 2008 there are more than 31,000 records available for searching in the Catalog, and work on adding new records is on-going.

List of taxa available in the catalog

To search the Lichens of Eastern North America 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: "New*" in the Province/State field will return specimen records from "New York," "New Jersey," etc.)

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

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 "glaucescens" finds specimens of Schismatomma glaucescens and Stereocaulon glaucescens.
Example 2: the term "Tuck." finds specimen records of numerous taxa described by Edward Tuckerman.

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