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
  • Acunna (3)
  • Agarista (133)
  • Agauria (1)
  • Andromeda (21)
  • Anthopterus (26)
  • Arbutus (182)
  • Arctostaphylos (57)
  • Bejaria (479)
  • Calopteryx (2)
  • Cavendishia (615)
  • Ceratostema (83)
  • Chimaphila (11)
  • Chupalon (1)
  • Comarostaphylis (18)
  • Demosthenesia (79)
  • Diogenesia (39)
  • Disterigma (311)
  • Eleutherostemon (3)
  • Empetrum (23)
  • Englerodoxa (2)
  • Gaultheria (978)
  • Gaylussacia (294)
  • Gonocalyx (5)
  • Hornemannia (2)
  • Jurgensenia (1)
  • Killipiella (2)
  • Ledothamnus (41)
  • Leucothoe (37)
  • Lyonia (19)
  • Macleania (225)
  • Moneses (1)
  • Monotropa (8)
  • Mycerinus (5)
  • Notopora (25)
  • Oreanthes (12)
  • Orthaea (69)
  • Pellegrinia (10)
  • Periclesia (2)
  • Pernettya (383)
  • Plutarchia (15)
  • Polyclita (4)
  • Proclesia (8)
  • Psammisia (402)
  • Pyrola (2)
  • Riedelia (2)
  • Rusbya (2)
  • Satyria (82)
  • Semiramisia (17)
  • Siphonandra (28)
  • Sophoclesia (7)
  • Sphyrospermum (169)
  • Tepuia (14)
  • Themistoclesia (73)
  • Thibaudia (277)
  • Utleya (1)
  • Vaccinium (409)