New York Botanical Garden Vascular Plant Type project completed

[Thiers, Barbara]

The New York Botanical Garden has completed the electronic cataloging of its
87,861 vascular plant types.  These records are available for searching at
the Garden's website: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/
<http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/>  .   A brief history of the project,
and some interesting statistics about the vascular plant type held by NYBG
are now available <http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/complete.html> .

Imaging of the vascular plant types
<http://www.nybg.org/bsci/herbarium_imaging/>  continues;  currently
approximately 15,000 images are linked to catalog records, and additional
images are added continually.

In an effort to meet our obligation to protect populations of endangered
species from over-collection, some of our specimen data (such as specific
locality  information) have been removed from those online records for
endangered species. These data are made available to researchers on request.
We are aware that making our herbarium specimen data available involves
striking a delicate balance between access to data that are important to
research and the potentially reckless posting of sensitive information. To
that end, we remove portions of records for species listed in the United
States Federal Endangered Plant Species list and in the IUCN Red List of
Threatened Plants. These two lists, however, are not comprehensive. If you
are aware of other species that are better protected by limiting access to
specific locality data, please contact us, and we will update our database
accordingly.

Dr. Barbara M. Thiers
New York Botanical Garden <http://www.nybg.org/>
200th St. & Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458-5126
Email: bthiers at nybg.org
Voice: 718-817-8622
Fax: 718-562-6780