Field Museum of Natural History (F-Botany)

Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php. Specialty: Phanerogams worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially rich in collections from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; pteridophytes worldwide with emphasis on Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru; bryophytes worldwide; mosses of North America, Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; hepatics of north temperate, South America, and south temperate; all groups of fungi, especially basidiomycetes with emphasis on New World and lichenized fungi of north temperate and Central America; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.
Collections Manager: Kimberly Hansen, khansen@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 September 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Collection Statistics
  • 484,459 specimen records
  • 37,039 (8%) georeferenced
  • 407,977 (84%) with images (474,064 total images)
  • 429,161 (89%) identified to species
  • 328 families
  • 5,532 genera
  • 74,579 species
  • 78,397 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - La Paz
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Abel Iturralde (2)
  • Ballivian (1)
  • Bautista Saavedra (5)
  • Franz Tamayo (2)
  • Inquisivi (37)
  • Inqusivi (1)
  • Iturralde (7)
  • Larecaja (109)
  • Loayza (1)
  • Manco Kapac (15)
  • Munecas (1)
  • Murillo (6)
  • Nor Yungas (167)
  • Pacajes (1)
  • Pedro Domingo Murillo (16)
  • Sud Yungas (117)
  • Sur Yungas (6)
  • Yungas (7)