NYBG CATALOGUE OF VASCULAR PLANT SPECIES OF EASTERN BRAZIL

[Thiers, Barbara]

CATALOGUE OF VASCULAR PLANT SPECIES OF EASTERN BRAZIL

An updated installment of this catalogue is now available at
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/sebc.  Among the recent additions, are records
for Fabaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, and Myrtaceae.  When completed, it will
contain information from all specimens of vascular plant species collected
in Eastern Brazil and housed in The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. In
addition, for each species that also occurs beyond the boundaries of eastern
Brazil, the catalogue will contain information from specimens chosen to
indicate the limits of the species' geographical range in the Americas.

For this catalogue, "Eastern Brazil" comprises the states on the Brazilian
coast from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio Grande do Sul.  The information in the
catalogue is intended to provide a means to assess the diversity and
endemism of the flora in this region.

Information can be obtained by searching the database directly or by
selecting from a checklist of families. The database contains information
from 83,000 specimens representing species of the 180 families for which
cataloguing has been completed.  Searching the database will return specimen
records that match the search criteria.  Selecting a family from the
checklist will return a list of genera and species in that family.  Further
selection of a genus or species name in the resulting list will return
specimen records just like those returned from a search.

Creation of this catalogue is funded in part by the National Science
Foundation (Jacquelyn Kallunki, P.I., and Anthony Kirchgessner, Co-P.I.) and
by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.