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
  • Abobra (5)
  • Alsomitra (4)
  • Anguria (27)
  • Apodanthera (79)
  • Bryonia (5)
  • Calycophysum (25)
  • Cayaponia (493)
  • Ceratosanthes (21)
  • Cionosicys (10)
  • Citrullus (13)
  • Coccinia (7)
  • Corallocarpus (2)
  • Cucumis (49)
  • Cucurbita (53)
  • Cucurbitella (31)
  • Cyclanthera (263)
  • Dieudonnaea (1)
  • Echinocystis (9)
  • Echinopepon (36)
  • Edmondia (2)
  • Elateriopsis (20)
  • Elaterium (27)
  • Fevillea (135)
  • Gurania (513)
  • Guraniopsis (2)
  • Hanburia (11)
  • Helmontia (5)
  • Ibervillea (4)
  • Lagenaria (25)
  • Luffa (63)
  • Melancium (1)
  • Melothria (237)
  • Melothrianthus (8)
  • Microsechium (8)
  • Momordica (116)
  • Parasicyos (1)
  • Peponopsis (6)
  • Perianthopodus (1)
  • Polyclathra (2)
  • Pseudocyclanthera (1)
  • Pseudosicydium (5)
  • Psiguria (100)
  • Pteropepon (9)
  • Pterosicyos (2)
  • Rytidostylis (73)
  • Schizocarpum (4)
  • Sechiopsis (2)
  • Sechium (10)
  • Selysia (21)
  • Sicana (10)
  • Sicydium (72)
  • Sicyocaulis (1)
  • Sicyos (181)
  • Siolmatra (21)
  • Trianosperma (4)
  • Wilbrandia (35)