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
  • Celastrus (24)
  • Crossopetalum (169)
  • Elaeodendron (5)
  • Euonymus (48)
  • Gymnosporia (17)
  • Maytenus (125)
  • Microtropis (43)
  • Mortonia (1)
  • Perrottetia (98)
  • Schaefferia (4)
  • Wimmeria (9)
  • Zinowiewia (62)