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
  • Amyris (69)
  • Angostura (23)
  • Casimiroa (22)
  • Citrus (15)
  • Decazyx (14)
  • Erythrochiton (21)
  • Esenbeckia (31)
  • Galipea (31)
  • Hortia (1)
  • Lubaria (9)
  • Megastigma (3)
  • Metrodorea (1)
  • Murraya (4)
  • Peltostigma (52)
  • Pilocarpus (20)
  • Raputia (12)
  • Ravenia (46)
  • Ruta (3)
  • Stauranthus (24)
  • Swinglea (1)
  • Thamnosma (1)
  • Ticorea (8)
  • Toxosiphon (34)
  • Zanthoxylum (375)