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
  • Calophyllum (28)
  • Chrysochlamys (81)
  • Clusia (167)
  • Clusiella (1)
  • Dystovomita (3)
  • Garcinia (23)
  • Hypericum (240)
  • Mammea (1)
  • Marila (10)
  • Symphonia (16)
  • Tovomita (29)
  • Vismia (52)