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
  • Achnatherum (2)
  • Aciachne (6)
  • Acroceras (31)
  • Aegopogon (40)
  • Agropyron (1)
  • Agrostis (156)
  • Aira (9)
  • Andropogon (147)
  • Anthephora (52)
  • Anthoxanthum (34)
  • Arberella (4)
  • Aristida (107)
  • Arrhenatherum (1)
  • Arthraxon (27)
  • Arthrostylidium (34)
  • Arundinaria (1)
  • Arundinella (82)
  • Arundo (5)
  • Aulonemia (17)
  • Austrostipa (1)
  • Avena (10)
  • Axonopus (184)
  • Bambusa (41)
  • Bothriochloa (5)
  • Bouteloua (51)
  • Brachypodium (8)
  • Briza (27)
  • Bromus (37)
  • Calamagrostis (93)
  • Catabrosa (1)
  • Cenchrus (106)
  • Chaetium (20)
  • Chloris (48)
  • Chusquea (490)
  • Cinna (11)
  • Coelorachis (10)
  • Coix (39)
  • Cortaderia (46)
  • Cryptochloa (34)
  • Cymbopogon (11)
  • Cynodon (39)
  • Cynosurus (1)
  • Dactylis (11)
  • Dactyloctenium (40)
  • Danthonia (5)
  • Dendrocalamus (7)
  • Deschampsia (2)
  • Dichanthelium (120)
  • Dichanthium (3)
  • Digitaria (270)
  • Echinochloa (133)
  • Echinolaena (2)
  • Eleusine (58)
  • Elymus (9)
  • Elytrostachys (28)
  • Eragrostis (315)
  • Eriochloa (17)
  • Eriochrysis (8)
  • Euclasta (3)
  • Eustachys (7)
  • Festuca (69)
  • Gigantochloa (2)
  • Glyceria (6)
  • Gouinia (7)
  • Guadua (30)
  • Gymnopogon (2)
  • Gynerium (17)
  • Hackelochloa (23)
  • Hemarthria (4)
  • Heteropogon (3)
  • Hierochloe (8)
  • Holcus (33)
  • Homolepis (71)
  • Hordeum (4)
  • Hymenachne (53)
  • Hyparrhenia (60)
  • Hyperthelia (2)
  • Ichnanthus (201)
  • Imperata (18)
  • Isachne (106)
  • Ischaemum (50)
  • Ixophorus (31)
  • Jouvea (40)
  • Lasiacis (415)
  • Leersia (45)
  • Leptochloa (87)
  • Leptocoryphium (15)
  • Leucopoa (1)
  • Leymus (1)
  • Lithachne (40)
  • Lolium (8)
  • Luziola (18)
  • Melica (1)
  • Melinis (25)
  • Melocanna (2)
  • Merostachys (10)
  • Mesosetum (9)
  • Microchloa (5)
  • Milium (1)
  • Monanthochloe (2)
  • Muhlenbergia (145)
  • Nardus (2)
  • Nassella (5)
  • Neurolepis (2)
  • Neyraudia (1)
  • Olyra (163)
  • Oplismenus (137)
  • Ortachne (4)
  • Orthoclada (48)
  • Oryza (70)
  • Otatea (4)
  • Panicum (665)
  • Pappophorum (1)
  • Paratheria (1)
  • Pariana (9)
  • Paspalidium (22)
  • Paspalum (747)
  • Pennisetum (115)
  • Pentarraphis (4)
  • Pereilema (25)
  • Phalaris (5)
  • Pharus (144)
  • Phleum (1)
  • Phragmites (19)
  • Phyllostachys (9)
  • Piptatherum (1)
  • Poa (60)
  • Pohlidium (1)
  • Polypogon (36)
  • Polytrias (1)
  • Pseudechinolaena (36)
  • Pseudoroegneria (3)
  • Puccinellia (1)
  • Reimarochloa (4)
  • Rhipidocladum (90)
  • Rhynchelytrum (32)
  • Rottboellia (36)
  • Saccharum (5)
  • Sacciolepis (39)
  • Schizachyrium (61)
  • Sesleria (1)
  • Setaria (195)
  • Sorghastrum (11)
  • Sorghum (28)
  • Spartina (4)
  • Sphenopholis (3)
  • Sporobolus (103)
  • Stenotaphrum (18)
  • Stipa (24)
  • Streptochaeta (49)
  • Streptogyna (6)
  • Thrasya (21)
  • Trachypogon (42)
  • Triniochloa (4)
  • Triplasis (4)
  • Tripogon (1)
  • Tripsacum (12)
  • Triraphis (1)
  • Trisetum (56)
  • Triticum (4)
  • Uniola (38)
  • Urochloa (182)
  • Vetiveria (6)
  • Vulpia (25)
  • Zea (12)
  • Zeugites (32)
  • Zoysia (7)