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
  • Agalinis (6)
  • Alectra (6)
  • Alonsoa (21)
  • Angelonia (6)
  • Antirrhinum (2)
  • Bacopa (73)
  • Benjaminia (5)
  • Buchnera (54)
  • Calceolaria (184)
  • Capraria (33)
  • Castilleja (206)
  • Chaenorhinum (1)
  • Cymbalaria (1)
  • Darcya (1)
  • Digitalis (24)
  • Escobedia (13)
  • Gibsoniothamnus (16)
  • Hemichaena (35)
  • Lamourouxia (51)
  • Leucocarpus (40)
  • Limosella (5)
  • Linaria (7)
  • Lindernia (73)
  • Mazus (9)
  • Mecardonia (42)
  • Melampyrum (5)
  • Micranthemum (1)
  • Mimulus (4)
  • Russelia (131)
  • Schistophragma (1)
  • Schlegelia (179)
  • Scoparia (86)
  • Sibthorpia (13)
  • Stemodia (72)
  • Tetranema (11)
  • Torenia (5)
  • Verbascum (4)
  • Veronica (74)