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Plant Collections

Botantists at the National Museum of Natural History work to discover the diversity of plant life in the water and on the land and understand the evolutionary origin of this diversity. The plant collections of the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany are among the most important worldwide. This vast and intensely managed collection of over 5 million specimens represents a premier national and international resource. Here you can explore and download free to use plant images from the museum. Horticulturalists at Smithsonian Gardens maintain living plant collections with thousands of unique items, including thousands of orchids.


  • NMNH - Botany Dept. 213 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Isotypes 1 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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  • South America - Neotropics 163 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Brazil 81 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Madre de Dios 65 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Peru 65 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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Omphalea sp.

Paullinia obovata (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.

Odontocarya cf. wullschlaegelii (Eichler) Barneby

Forsteronia laurifolia (Benth.) A. DC.

Gnetum urens (Aubl.) Blume

Tetrapterys sp.

Odontadenia puncticulosa (Rich.) Pulle

Strychnos rondeletioides Spruce ex Benth.

Moutabea guianensis Aubl.

Trigonia spruceana Benth. ex Warm.

Strychnos guianensis (Aubl.) Mart.

Matelea acevedoi Morillo

Gnetum leyboldii Tul.

Serjania elongata J.F. Macbr.

Cissus obovata Vahl

Matelea amazonica Morillo

Hippocratea volubilis L.

Indet. sp.

Bauhinia sp.

Paullinia stellata Radlk.

Paullinia hystrix Radlk.

Adelphia macrophylla (Rusby) W.R. Anderson

Paullinia elegans Cambess.

Dicranostyles scandens Benth.

Cynanchum montevidense Spreng.

Hiraea faginea (Sw.) Nied.

Gnetum schwackeanum Taub. ex Markgr.

Poa planifolia Kuntze

Calyptrion arboreum (L.) Paula-Souza

Sabicea cinerea Aubl.

Indet. sp.

Combretum sp.

Salacia impressifolia (Miers) A.C. Sm.

Aniseia sp.

Piptocarpha poeppigiana (DC.) Baker


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