Neotropical Flora and Mycota Catalog

The tropics include the region of the earth’s surface between the Tropic of Cancer (23°27’N) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23°27’S) and comprise about 40% of the earth’s land surface. The Paleotropics include African and Southeast Asian tropical areas while the Neotropics are the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, including southern Mexico, Central America, most of South America, and the West Indies.

The tropics contain an overwhelmingly large number of the world's living species and, as a result, continue to be the focus of intensive biological exploration and research. Currently, the Neotropical flora and mycota consist of approximately 90,000 species of flowering plants, 550,000 fungi, 13,500 lichens, 7,000 bryophytes, 3,400 pteridophytes, 150 gymnosperms and 6,000 algae.

The aim of this catalog is to provide researchers with immediate access to The New York Botanical Garden's Neotropical collections and a link to information, from the checklists below, on each taxon name through the Missouri Botanical Garden’s VAST (VAScular Tropicos) and MOST (MOSs Tropicos) systems. Currently there are 160,716 specimen records available for searching. The catalog contains records from the countries listed in the table below.

Countries Included in the Catalog
Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina (only States Formosa, Jujuy & Salta) Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bolivia Brazil (except States Santa Catarina & Rio Grande do Sul) Chile (only States Atacama & Tarapaca) Colombia Costa Rica Cuba	Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador French Guiana Grenada Guadeloupe Guyana Haiti Jamaica Martinique Mexico Montserrat Netherlands Antilles	Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad & Tobago United States (only Dade & Monroe Counties, Florida) Venezuela Virgin Islands (U.K.) Virgin Islands (U.S.)

(Click on a group name from the list below to see a list of the families and taxa currently available. Each taxon name is a link that will generate a list containing all available records in the catalog with this name. Below each taxon name is a link to the TROPICOS entry for that name. To tailor a search to suit your specific research needs, simply click on the button below and you will be presented with a query form.)

• Vascular Plants (154,883 records)
• Hepatics (674 records)
• Mosses (2,164 records)
• Fungi (2,897 records)
• Lichens (98 records)