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
  • Acaena (81)
  • Alchemilla (132)
  • Amelanchier (12)
  • Eriobotrya (6)
  • Fragaria (7)
  • Hesperomeles (68)
  • Holodiscus (45)
  • Malus (1)
  • Potentilla (28)
  • Prunus (151)
  • Pyracantha (3)
  • Rosa (15)
  • Rubus (234)
  • Sorbus (6)