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The West Indies are an archipelago with more than one thousand islands that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea. This website presents a checklist of the currently accepted scientific names of seed plants from the West Indies, including synonomy and distribution by island.
Georeferencing Plants of the Guiana Shield
Type specimens in the U.S. National Herbarium from the Guiana Shield region have been georeferenced and a Google Map display and Google Earth placemarks are provided. A discussion of the methodology for determining coordinates for older specimens is presented.
Search this site for plant names.
Looking for a specific plant? Enter a generic name in the 'Finding Information' box in the right column and discover which species are covered in each of our 13 online research and image databases.
Collections
Type Specimen Images and U.S. National Herbarium Type Register
Botany Specimens in the Museum's Collections Information System
History of the U.S. National Herbarium
Collections Management Policy Index (Index / Full Text)
Collector's Field Books and Miscellaneous Notes
Historical Collections in the U.S. National Herbarium
Georeferencing Plants of the Guiana Shield: US Types
Research
Current Research Areas
Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield
Flora of the Marquesas Islands
Flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area
Other Projects
Awards and Endowments
Publications
Newsletters
Biological Conservation Newsletter
Searchable Database of Publications by Botany Staff
Contributions from the United States National Herbarium
List of Publications in the Contributions series and links to available PDF versions and Web sites.
Smithsonian Contributions to Botany
Searchable list of publications. Publications offered in digital format.
On-line Versions of Staff Publications
Checklist of the Flora of the Guianas
Checklist of the Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area
Identifying Harmful Marine Dinoflagellates
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)
Preliminary Checklist of the Plants of Kaieteur National Park, Guyana
World Checklist of Gesneriaceae
Bibliographies
Annotated Bibliography of the Gesneriaceae
Bibliography for the Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area
Bibliography of the Biological Conservation Newsletter
Photographs and
Botanical Illustrations
Flower Gallery for the Washington-Baltimore Area
Image Gallery for the Hawaiian Islands
Image Gallery for the Marquesas Islands
Representative taxa in Families of Zingiberales
Proposed Smithsonian Center for Botanical Art and Illustration
Partners
Links to Botany's national and international partners in research, collections, training, and public outreach.
Events and Activities
The Department of Botany hosts events and activities throughout the year to explore and recognize achievements in the botanical community. The following list provides the most current of these projects.
2009 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
Smithsonian Botanical Symposium Archive Site
References and Tools
Useful Botanical Links
A page of links to botanical resources on the Web.
Nomenclatural Tools
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)
Conserved and Rejected Plant Names: Proposals and Disposals
Taxonomic Groups
Dinoflagellates
Harmful Marine Dinoflagellates
Dinoflagellate Types
Geographical Areas
Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield
Centres of Plant Diversity: The Americas
Flora of the Marquesas Islands
Botanical Exploration in Myanmar
Flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area
Other References
Smithsonian Institution Libraries' Botany & Horticulture Library
Contacts
NMNH - Botany Department
MRC 0166
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Phone: 202-633-0920
Fax: 202-786-2563
Chair, Department of Botany: Warren Wagner
Collections Manager: Rusty Russell
Web Site Contacts:
Sylvia Stone Orli (Web site inquiries)
Rusty Russell (botanical inquiries)
Botany Web Site Development Group: Ellen Farr (Chair), Sylvia Stone Orli, Rusty Russell, Bob Sims, Gary Krupnick
Botany News
The 2009 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, "Genes, Genomics, and Genome Evolution in Plants", will be held March 27-28, 2009, at the National Museum of Natural History.
Visit the symposium Web site for additional information and on-line registration.
Cuatrecasas Award funds available to support research visits to the U.S. National Herbarium
October - December 2008 Plant Press Now Online
Finding Information
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