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
  • Bauhinia (161)
  • Brownea (4)
  • Caesalpinia (125)
  • Cassia (453)
  • Chamaecrista (78)
  • Copaifera (32)
  • Crudia (14)
  • Cynometra (45)
  • Delonix (6)
  • Dialium (34)
  • Haematoxylum (23)
  • Hymenaea (28)
  • Macrolobium (60)
  • Mora (19)
  • Parkinsonia (24)
  • Peltogyne (20)
  • Peltophorum (6)
  • Phyllocarpus (10)
  • Prioria (28)
  • Schizolobium (14)
  • Sclerolobium (16)
  • Senna (221)
  • Tachigali (17)
  • Tamarindus (15)