A new version of this interface can be found here.

Advice on filling in the form
You can fill in as many, or as few, of the boxes that are relevant to your query.
The species box
Use this if you want to know about what specimens there are of a particular species or taxa. You can truncate your entry at any point, so if you are interested in a whole genus just type in the genus name.
Geographical area box
If you are interested in the specimens found in a defined geographic area or island group, then select the relevant one from this list.
Locality box
This lets you restrict your query by anything that may be in the habitat and locality field of the Antarctic Plant Database. So if you are interested in the specimens from a particular locality then type in the place name here. Or, if you are interested in, say, lichens growing on mosses you could type
'On moss' in this box.
The Collection and Collection number boxes
Use these if you want to retrieve information on an individual specimen. Collection names can be truncated at any point. Collection numbers must have 5 digits so use zeros at the front of the number if necessary.
The Plant group box
Use this if you want to restrict your query to a particular plant/organism group e.g. to retrieve only moss or lichen specimens.
The default is any plant group.
Complete species determinations only
If you are not searching by a species name you can choose whether to retrieve only specimens which have been determined to the species level, or to also retrieve incomplete and descriptive determinations, such as 'Cladonia sp' or 'black crustose lichen'. The default is specimens determined to the species level.
Records displayed
Use this to alter the number of specimen records returned on each page. This defaults to 15. Please be aware that a larger number will mean a longer wait before any records are returned.
Results
The results are automatically sorted by species, collection and collection number. You also sort by any of the underlined columns by clicking on the column heading. To download the results to a spreadsheet click on the 'download to spreadsheet' link at the bottom of the page - this will download all records matching your query, not just those shown on the current page (up to a maximum of 2000 records).

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