Scripta Botanica Belgica 49 Catalogue of Brazilian Plants collected by Prince Maximilian of Wied Catalogue of Brazilian Plants Catalogue of Brazilian Plants collected by Prince Maximilian of Wied Pedro Luís Rodrigues de Moraes Pedro Luís Rodrigues de Moraes was born on 25 May 1965 in Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. Currently he is an Assistant Doctor Professor of the Department of Botany, UNESP – Rio Claro, researching taxonomy of Brazilian Lauraceae and historical collections of plants mainly acquired from Brazil. isbn 9789072619891 issn 0779-2387 D/2012/0325/3 Pedro Luís Rodrigues de Moraes The catalogue of Brazilian plants collected by Prince Maximilian of Wied pre- sents 1,274 entries of species names. It is a compilation of what is currently available in literature, herbarium databases, and from searches for specimens in major European herbaria and in the private collection of Wied in Neuwied, Ger- many. For each entry, information on the status of species name, authority, the venue of protologue publication, synonyms and/or names annotated on labels, and the specimens located in diferent herbaria are provided. Up to the present, 2,741 specimens attributed to Wied have been located, distributed in 139 fami- lies, 569 genera and 1,197 species of vascular plants, and 23 families, 36 genera and 52 species of cryptogams, including algae. Wied specimens are amongst the earliest extant collections from Brazil, comprising a precious record of the lora of the Atlantic rainforest and of the dry vegetation (semideciduous forest, savanna and caatinga) of Bahia in the early 19th century. Over 500 of them are nomenclatural types. 49 Cover_scripta49_DEF.indd 1 23/10/2013 12:31:00