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
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Allamanda (123)
  • Allomarkgrafia (11)
  • Ambelania (65)
  • Amblyanthera (4)
  • Anechites (5)
  • Anisolobus (5)
  • Apocynum (2)
  • Asclepias (1)
  • Aspidosperma (730)
  • Bonafousia (3)
  • Catharanthus (25)
  • Cerbera (2)
  • Codonechites (1)
  • Condylocarpon (90)
  • Couma (143)
  • Cufodontia (2)
  • Dipladenia (38)
  • Echites (76)
  • Elytropus (13)
  • Fernaldia (6)
  • Forsteronia (384)
  • Galactophora (27)
  • Geissospermum (14)
  • Haemadictyon (10)
  • Hancornia (25)
  • Haplophyton (5)
  • Heterothrix (5)
  • Himatanthus (318)
  • Hortsmania (3)
  • Lacmellea (189)
  • Landolphia (5)
  • Laseguea (13)
  • Laubertia (15)
  • Laxoplumeria (8)
  • Macoubea (47)
  • Macropharynx (31)
  • Macrosiphonia (78)
  • Malouetia (193)
  • Mandevilla (798)
  • Mesechites (104)
  • Microplumeria (6)
  • Molongum (16)
  • Mucoa (10)
  • Neocouma (12)
  • Nerium (25)
  • Odontadenia (255)
  • Pacouria (14)
  • Parahancornia (41)
  • Peltastes (27)
  • Pentalinon (2)
  • Peschiera (6)
  • Plumeria (95)
  • Plumeriopsis (1)
  • Prestonia (397)
  • Quadricasaea (2)
  • Rauvolfia (295)
  • Rhabdadenia (68)
  • Rhigospira (31)
  • Robbia (1)
  • Secondatia (56)
  • Skytanthus (12)
  • Spongiosperma (8)
  • Stemmadenia (95)
  • Stipecoma (21)
  • Streptotrachelus (1)
  • Taberna (1)
  • Tabernaemontana (1129)
  • Temnadenia (21)
  • Thenardia (11)
  • Thevetia (86)
  • Thyrsanthus (4)
  • Tintinnabularia (1)
  • Tonduzia (1)
  • Trachelospermum (2)
  • Urechites (1)
  • Vallesia (43)
  • Vinca (27)
  • Woytkowskia (1)
  • Zschokkea (27)