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
  • Achillea (15)
  • Acmella (77)
  • Adenostemma (19)
  • Ageratina (329)
  • Ageratum (111)
  • Ambrosia (20)
  • Anthemis (3)
  • Archibaccharis (66)
  • Artemisia (18)
  • Aster (27)
  • Ayapana (26)
  • Baccharis (118)
  • Baltimora (48)
  • Bartlettina (16)
  • Bellis (9)
  • Bidens (174)
  • Blumea (12)
  • Brickellia (35)
  • Calea (108)
  • Calyptocarpus (11)
  • Centratherum (10)
  • Chaptalia (41)
  • Chionolaena (9)
  • Chromolaena (128)
  • Chrysanthellum (5)
  • Chrysanthemum (21)
  • Cichorium (3)
  • Cirsium (74)
  • Clibadium (251)
  • Conyza (100)
  • Cosmos (24)
  • Cotula (4)
  • Crepis (5)
  • Critonia (100)
  • Dahlia (28)
  • Decachaeta (42)
  • Delilia (34)
  • Dimorphotheca (1)
  • Diplostephium (59)
  • Dyssodia (39)
  • Echinacea (2)
  • Eclipta (63)
  • Egletes (16)
  • Elephantopus (62)
  • Eleutheranthera (10)
  • Emilia (98)
  • Erato (40)
  • Erechtites (81)
  • Erigeron (78)
  • Espejoa (4)
  • Eupatoriastrum (3)
  • Eupatorium (39)
  • Fleischmannia (222)
  • Galeana (12)
  • Galinsoga (104)
  • Gamochaeta (67)
  • Garcilassa (15)
  • Gerbera (2)
  • Gnaphalium (166)
  • Gongrostylus (6)
  • Guizotia (1)
  • Gynura (4)
  • Hebeclinium (24)
  • Helenium (2)
  • Helianthus (8)
  • Heliopsis (2)
  • Heterocondylus (53)
  • Hidalgoa (17)
  • Hieracium (52)
  • Hypochoeris (45)
  • Ichthyothere (4)
  • Iltisia (10)
  • Isocarpha (29)
  • Jaegeria (68)
  • Jungia (27)
  • Koanophyllon (113)
  • Lactuca (6)
  • Laestadia (38)
  • Lagascea (7)
  • Lagenifera (2)
  • Lapsana (1)
  • Lasianthaea (77)
  • Liabum (72)
  • Lycoseris (27)
  • Matricaria (10)
  • Melampodium (122)
  • Melanthera (111)
  • Mikania (270)
  • Milleria (34)
  • Montanoa (76)
  • Munnozia (23)
  • Mycelis (1)
  • Neomirandea (275)
  • Neurolaena (106)
  • Notoptera (1)
  • Oligactis (4)
  • Onoseris (31)
  • Otopappus (21)
  • Oyedaea (36)
  • Pacourina (2)
  • Parthenium (1)
  • Pectis (62)
  • Perymenium (9)
  • Peteravenia (9)
  • Piptocarpha (37)
  • Piqueria (6)
  • Pluchea (10)
  • Podachaenium (28)
  • Pollalesta (15)
  • Polyanthina (27)
  • Porophyllum (34)
  • Pseudelephantopus (58)
  • Pseudogynoxys (19)
  • Rensonia (3)
  • Rolandra (9)
  • Roldana (25)
  • Rumfordia (4)
  • Sabazia (10)
  • Salmea (13)
  • Santolina (2)
  • Schistocarpha (44)
  • Sciadocephala (1)
  • Sclerocarpus (33)
  • Selloa (2)
  • Senecio (505)
  • Sigesbeckia (44)
  • Simsia (7)
  • Sinclairia (33)
  • Smallanthus (40)
  • Sonchus (37)
  • Sphagneticola (60)
  • Spilanthes (8)
  • Spiracantha (29)
  • Stevia (54)
  • Struchium (7)
  • Synedrella (47)
  • Tagetes (83)
  • Taraxacum (12)
  • Tessaria (14)
  • Tithonia (43)
  • Trichospira (8)
  • Tridax (53)
  • Trixis (57)
  • Tussilago (1)
  • Verbesina (152)
  • Vernonia (398)
  • Viguiera (107)
  • Wamalchitamia (3)
  • Wedelia (48)
  • Westoniella (45)
  • Youngia (29)
  • Zexmenia (67)
  • Zinnia (7)