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
  • Acanthocereus (3)
  • Acanthorhipsalis (1)
  • Aporocactus (8)
  • Ariocarpus (1)
  • Armatocereus (10)
  • Astrophytum (2)
  • Borzicactus (16)
  • Brasiliopuntia (2)
  • Browningia (7)
  • Calymmanthium (1)
  • Cephalocereus (19)
  • Cereus (15)
  • Cleistocactus (6)
  • Copiapoa (13)
  • Corryocactus (11)
  • Coryphantha (8)
  • Disocactus (12)
  • Echinocactus (11)
  • Echinocereus (10)
  • Echinofossulocactus (1)
  • Echinomastus (2)
  • Echinopsis (3)
  • Epiphyllum (35)
  • Eriosyce (15)
  • Escobaria (1)
  • Espostoa (5)
  • Espostoopsis (1)
  • Eulychnia (9)
  • Ferocactus (17)
  • Gymnocalycium (2)
  • Haageocereus (19)
  • Hariota (1)
  • Harrisia (3)
  • Hatiora (1)
  • Heliocereus (1)
  • Hylocereus (7)
  • Islaya (8)
  • Lophocereus (1)
  • Lophophora (6)
  • Mammillaria (25)
  • Matucana (2)
  • Melocactus (12)
  • Myrtillocactus (1)
  • Neobuxbaumia (1)
  • Neoporteria (21)
  • Neoraimondia (16)
  • Nopalea (2)
  • Obregonia (1)
  • Opuntia (122)
  • Pachycereus (4)
  • Parodia (1)
  • Pereskia (10)
  • Pilosocereus (21)
  • Praecereus (1)
  • Pseudorhipsalis (2)
  • Pterocereus (1)
  • Pygmaeocereus (4)
  • Rhipsalis (74)
  • Selenicereus (9)
  • Stenocactus (3)
  • Stenocereus (6)
  • Tephrocactus (2)
  • Thelocactus (2)
  • Trichocereus (14)
  • Weberbauerocereus (3)
  • Wittia (1)