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
  • Brassica (23)
  • Capsella (7)
  • Cardamine (87)
  • Draba (8)
  • Erysimum (13)
  • Lepidium (36)
  • Nasturtium (10)
  • Raphanus (4)
  • Romanschulzia (13)
  • Rorippa (16)
  • Sisymbrium (7)