Cactus and Succulent Field Number Finder

This form will take a cactus or succulent species (e.g. Rebutia heliosa), and return field numbers corresponding to that species if available.

Note that the same species may be listed under various different names (e.g. Rebutia heliosa may also be listed as Aylostera heliosa). This service does not automatically cross-reference alternative names, so it is up to you to search manually for all appropriate alternatives.

Enter plant name (genus and species only) e.g. Rebutia heliosa, and press return

Searches are restricted to returning the first 500 results.

If you get errors, please report them to me.

Other Queries

If you want to identify the species corresponding to a particular field number (e.g. KK 2005), please use the field number query service instead.

If you want to see which collector (e.g. Karel Knize) corresponds to a given acronym (e.g. KK), please use the field collector service instead.

If you want to search for plants found at a given locality (e.g. Sierra Medina), please use the field number locality query service instead.

If you already have the collector's name (e.g. Karel Kníže), and want to find the acronym(s) used by that collector (e.g. KK, KZ), please use the field collector's acronym query service instead.

This service currently includes details of at least some of the plants collected under the following acronyms:
A, AA, AG, AH, AHB, AJB, AM, AN, AW, AWC, B, B&K, BALLY, BB, BC, BDH, BENSON, BKS, BLMT, BLOSSF, BO, BR, BU, BV, BW, BZ, C, CARD, CH, CR, CS, CSD, CW, CX, CZ, D, DAR, DF, DFF, DFM, DH, DJF, DK, DM, DP, DSW, DT, DU, DV, E, EFA, EG, ES, EVJ, EZ, F&W, FA, FGB, FH, FK, FO, FOSTER, FPAN, FR, FS, G, G&GOLD, GC, GD, GH, GJA, GL, GL&DONEY, GL&F, GL&KIMNACH, GL&MENDOZA, GLASS&GLASS, GM, GN, GOMEZ-H, GR, GS, H, HERNANDEZ, HJ, HK, HN, HR, HS, HTH, HU, HUN, HV, IAS, IDD, ISI, J, JA, JAA, JB, JD, JDV, JF, JIR, JJH, JK, JL, JLH, JM, JN, JO, JP, JPR, JS, K, KA, KCS, KF, KG, KH, KJN, KK, KKR, KLAK, KMR, KPP, KPR, KRZ, KS, KSS, L, L&B, LAU, LAV, LB, LF, LH, LLOYD, LNO, LRM, LS, LX, LZ, M, MACD, MAW, MB, MBB, MDF, ME, MGH, MH, MK, ML, MM, MMR, MN, MSG, MT, MZ, NBG, NM, NPT, NRY, OLV, P, P&W, PAN, PAR, PC, PCL, PCO, PD, PEH, PF, PH, PM, PN, PP, PR, PV, PVB, PVB&EH, R, R&Y, RBC, RCH, RCP, REEVES, REP, REPP, RH, RKH, RMF, RNK, ROG, RP, RRM, RS, RW, RWB, S, SB, SCHL, SE, SL, SP, STO, TB, TG, TJ, TK, TO, TOM, UL, V, VM, VOS, VS, VZ, VZD, WCB, WCO, WK, WM, WP, WR, WRA, WS, Z, ZJ, ZR.

Note that lists for some collectors are highly incomplete.

Note that sometimes more than one plant will be returned with the same field number – this may be because some collectors have used numbers to refer to localities rather than particular specimens collected at that locality.

In some cases, there may be more than one acronym corresponding to the same set of numbers. For example R and WR are used for Rausch's numbers, L and LAU for Lau's numbers, and so on. In such cases, all possibilities will be returned.

Major parts of the initial data for this query service were provided by Dave Whiteley and Petr Antálek. Other data were supplied by, inter alia, Gérard Ardisson, Jean-André Audissou, Karl Augustin, Geoff Bailey, Brian Bates, Jürgen Beck, Ludwig Bercht, Tomasz Blaczkowski, Clazien Bouwman-van Egmond, Alan Butler, Graham Charles, Philippe Corman, Kádár Csaba, Amante Darmanin, Gérard Delanoy, Ulrich Dosedal, Igor Dráb, Pavel Duchek, Mark Faint, Daiv Freeman, Pierre Gambart, Wolfgang Gemmrich, Alessandro Gentili, Klaus Gilmer, Quentin Groom, Wolter ten Hoeve, Paul Hoxey, Cyrill Hunkeler, Zlatko Janeba, Jan Ječmínek, Jakub Jilemicky, Fred Kattermann, Wolfgang Krueger, Tomáš Kulhánek, Michel Lacoste, AL Laius, Martin Lowry, Georges Marchand, Massimo Meregalli, Roger Moreton, Dave Naylor, Martina and Andreas Ohr, Benjamin Oliver, Wolfgang Papsch, Pavel Pavlicek, Ralph Peters, Chris Rodgerson, Zvone Rovsek, Lucio Russo, Volker Schädlich, Eberhard Scholz, Daniel Schweich, Bernhard Schweitzer, Chris Sherrah, Stanislav Spurny, Brian Thomson, Jaroslav Ullmann, Willy Verheulpen, Johan de Vries, Mario Wick, Mats Winberg and Jan Ziegrosser. Translation assistance was given by Zlatko Janeba and Frank Sengpiel. I am grateful to all of them for their help and permission to use this data.

Further additions and editing of the data, and conversion to a WWW query service, were done by Ralph Martin – see his Cactus and Succulent Page.

If you have any corrections, additions, bug reports, offers of further data files, or other comments on this service, please email them to me at ralph@cs.cf.ac.uk.