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	Note: The Virtual Herbarium may not be available for searching between 12 am and 2 am EST, while the database is reindexed. History of the Virtual Herbarium A Summary of Databasing Projects A Guide for Use of the Virtual Herbarium Treatment of Endangered and Threatened Plant Species Specimen Showcases Virtual Herbarium and Physical Specimen Loans Collectors Represented in the Herbarium Representative Collectors (bryophytes) Representative Collectors (fungi) Representative Collectors (vascular plants) How to Link to Our Specimen Data Useful References Acknowledgements

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The New York Botanical Garden catalogs specimens as part of specific projects. These are described in detail in the Summary of Databasing Projects page.

In 2004 the Virtual Herbarium adopted a new software platform, KE Software's KE EMu. In addition to providing a more modern system for data entry and storage, the EMu system permits many improvements to our web presentation of data. We are able to make a greater range of data available for searching, new records are posted instantly, users are able to download data, and georeferenced specimens can be mapped.

To see a selection of records that demonstrate the features of the new interface, see our Specimen Showcase

To search for specimens by plant name (division, family, genus, species, or subspecifies), 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, use the Detailed Search.

Quick Search


Detailed Search		Tips for Searching (see below)
Most recent determination
	Family	Scientific Name*
	Genus	Species
All determinations for a specimen
	Family	Scientific Name*
	Genus	Species
Collector/Number
	Collector	Collection Number
Collection Location
	Country	Province/State	County/Municip.
	City	Specific Locality
Other
	Barcode ID	Determiner/Identifier of Specimen
	Type Status	Substrate
	Display only records with images/other multimedia files:

Search Tips

Searches in the Virtual Herbarium are word-based by default. 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 Dakota," "South Carolina," etc.)

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

Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases. Words not enclosed by quotation marks will be used to search for records with all of the words, but not necessarily in the order typed.

*The Scientific Name field can be used to search by the genus, species, infraspecies, and author abbreviations of a name.
Example 1: the search term "viridis" finds specimens of Rauvolfia viridis , Amaranthus viridis, etc.
Example 2: the term "Ekman" finds specimen records of numerous taxa described by Erik Ekman.

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

List of families available for searching in the Virtual Herbarium


	Comments

	We are interested in comments from users about the new interface and any additional features that would be helpful. Please send these comments to: Virtual Herbarium vhnybg@nybg.org