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The Planalto Expedition Program

An “Interview” with Howard S. Irwin and William R. Anderson

The Participants

The Expeditions

Photographs from William R. Anderson

Photographs from Steven R. Hill

Irwin’s final report to NSF

This Catalogue

Introduction and Search

Project Interns

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For More Information

A Guide for Use of the Virtual Herbarium

Catalogue of Vascular Plant Species
of Central and Northeastern Brazil

This Catalogue will contain information from more than 90,000 specimens housed in The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium that represent vascular plant species occurring in Central and Northeastern Brazil.

Specimens from the Distrito Federal and the following states are included: Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Piauí, and Tocantins. The information in this catalogue is intended to provide a means to assess the geographic distributions of species in this region and the diversity and endemism of the flora.

Specimen records can be obtained by selecting from the checklist of families or by searching the database directly. Selecting a family will return a list of genera and species in that family. Selecting a genus or species name will return a list of specimen records, details of which can be obtained individually by clicking on the taxon name or in groups by clicking the boxes to the right of the records and then the “View checked” button at bottom of the page. Searching the database directly will return a similar list of specimen records.

This Catalogue will present one of the jewels of the NYBG Herbarium—the set of about 42,000 specimens collected by New York Botanical Garden staff members, Howard S. Irwin and William R. Anderson, and several collaborators during a series of expeditions to the Brazilian Planalto funded by The National Science Foundation from 1964—1975 and carried out in collaboration with the University of Brasília. At the time of the Planalto program, the flora of the Planalto was relatively unknown, and many new species were discovered, most represented by types in the NYBG Herbarium. Irwin’s 1972 report to NSF is a concise, informative summary of the accomplishments made as a result of the Planalto program.

Because plants don’t respect political boundaries, you may wish to use this Catalogue in conjunction with the Catalogue of Vascular Plant Species of Eastern Brazil, which contains records of specimens from the coastal states from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio Grande do Sul. Although we have not yet made a systematic effort to catalogue specimens from the Amazonian states, there are records for many, especially those from Acre, in the database. Accessing all records of a vascular plant species from Brazil that are catalogued to date is more efficiently done via a search of the Catalogue of Vascular Plant Species of Brazil.

Creating this Catalogue is expected to take three years, after which it will be updated regularly with records of new specimens from the region accessioned at the NYBG Herbarium and with any changes to records already in the Catalogue.

Our goal is to make this catalogue as useful as possible. If you have any suggestions or if you find errors in this catalogue, please take a moment to send your comments to the

Funded in part by the National Science Foundation (DBI-0543335), Jacquelyn Kallunki, P.I., and Emily Ashley, Co-P.I.

Information included in the records (click here)

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Use an asterisk (*) as a substitute for any number of characters in a word. (Example: "Rio*" in the Province/State field will return specimen records from "Rio Grande do Norte," "Rio Grande do Sul," "Rio de Janeiro," etc.)

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