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
  • Aciotis (121)
  • Acisanthera (18)
  • Adelobotrys (65)
  • Alloneuron (1)
  • Arthrostemma (97)
  • Axinaea (42)
  • Bellucia (37)
  • Blakea (644)
  • Centradenia (145)
  • Chaetolepis (37)
  • Clidemia (1098)
  • Conostegia (1053)
  • Graffenrieda (57)
  • Henriettea (151)
  • Heterocentron (23)
  • Heterotis (5)
  • Leandra (288)
  • Loreya (19)
  • Maieta (7)
  • Medinilla (2)
  • Meriania (61)
  • Miconia (2595)
  • Monochaetum (277)
  • Monolena (2)
  • Mouriri (103)
  • Nepsera (48)
  • Ossaea (383)
  • Pilocosta (87)
  • Pterolepis (20)
  • Rhynchanthera (18)
  • Schwackaea (43)
  • Tibouchina (238)
  • Tococa (59)
  • Topobea (357)
  • Triolena (79)