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
  • Archytaea (34)
  • Arrudea (1)
  • Ascyrum (4)
  • Astrotheca (3)
  • Calophyllum (118)
  • Caopia (1)
  • Caraipa (293)
  • Chrysochlamys (329)
  • Clusia (1961)
  • Clusiella (44)
  • Decaphalangium (4)
  • Dystovomita (16)
  • Garcinia (257)
  • Haploclathra (10)
  • Havetia (7)
  • Havetiopsis (18)
  • Hypericum (867)
  • Kielmeyera (169)
  • Lorostemon (4)
  • Mahurea (47)
  • Mammea (8)
  • Marialva (5)
  • Marila (100)
  • Moronobea (35)
  • Oedematopus (52)
  • Pilosperma (5)
  • Platonia (12)
  • Polythecandra (1)
  • Quapoya (33)
  • Renggeria (2)
  • Rengifa (3)
  • Rheedia (40)
  • Symphonia (157)
  • Thysanostemon (1)
  • Tovomita (169)
  • Tovomitopsis (40)
  • Vismia (969)