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
  • Artocarpus (11)
  • Batocarpus (24)
  • Brosimum (175)
  • Castilla (34)
  • Clarisia (58)
  • Dorstenia (211)
  • Ficus (1305)
  • Helicostylis (32)
  • Maclura (55)
  • Maquira (67)
  • Morus (12)
  • Naucleopsis (49)
  • Olmedia (50)
  • Perebea (86)
  • Poulsenia (21)
  • Pseudolmedia (110)
  • Sorocea (251)
  • Trophis (191)