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
  • Abrus (1)
  • Acosmium (45)
  • Aeschynomene (189)
  • Alysicarpus (21)
  • Andira (96)
  • Apoplanesia (8)
  • Arachis (5)
  • Ateleia (17)
  • Cajanus (14)
  • Calopogonium (118)
  • Canavalia (117)
  • Centrosema (151)
  • Chaetocalyx (6)
  • Cicer (1)
  • Clitoria (43)
  • Cologania (19)
  • Coursetia (15)
  • Crotalaria (306)
  • Cymbosema (3)
  • Dalbergia (162)
  • Dalea (47)
  • Desmodium (606)
  • Dioclea (83)
  • Diphysa (45)
  • Dipteryx (29)
  • Dolichos (5)
  • Dussia (20)
  • Eriosema (66)
  • Erythrina (226)
  • Fairchildia (1)
  • Flemingia (10)
  • Galactia (25)
  • Gliricidia (38)
  • Glycine (4)
  • Hymenolobium (9)
  • Indigofera (169)
  • Inocarpus (2)
  • Lablab (8)
  • Lathyrus (10)
  • Lecointea (18)
  • Lennea (8)
  • Lonchocarpus (459)
  • Lotus (13)
  • Lupinus (56)
  • Machaerium (213)
  • Macroptilium (22)
  • Medicago (12)
  • Melilotus (7)
  • Mucuna (102)
  • Muellera (26)
  • Myrospermum (13)
  • Myroxylon (10)
  • Nissolia (12)
  • Ormosia (55)
  • Oxyrhynchus (11)
  • Pachyrhizus (41)
  • Paramachaerium (6)
  • Phaseolus (177)
  • Piscidia (14)
  • Pisum (1)
  • Platymiscium (53)
  • Poiretia (6)
  • Psophocarpus (1)
  • Pterocarpus (78)
  • Pueraria (9)
  • Rhynchosia (113)
  • Sesbania (21)
  • Sophora (5)
  • Stizolobium (6)
  • Stylosanthes (84)
  • Styphnolobium (9)
  • Swartzia (262)
  • Tephrosia (56)
  • Teramnus (33)
  • Trifolium (72)
  • Ulex (7)
  • Uribea (7)
  • Vatairea (13)
  • Vicia (19)
  • Vigna (158)
  • Willardia (9)
  • Zornia (49)