Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anaxagorea (97)
  • Annona (196)
  • Cananga (30)
  • Cymbopetalum (92)
  • Desmopsis (207)
  • Duguetia (40)
  • Guatteria (625)
  • Klarobelia (6)
  • Malmea (4)
  • Mosannona (5)
  • Oxandra (10)
  • Rollinia (117)
  • Sapranthus (59)
  • Stenanona (26)
  • Unonopsis (97)
  • Xylopia (127)