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
  • Abatia (95)
  • Aphaerema (6)
  • Ascra (1)
  • Azara (127)
  • Banara (365)
  • Berberidopsis (1)
  • Carpotroche (185)
  • Casearia (2218)
  • Chaetocrater (4)
  • Dendrostigma (1)
  • Dendrostylis (2)
  • Eichlerodendron (3)
  • Euceraea (26)
  • Flacourtia (19)
  • Hasseltia (181)
  • Hasseltiopsis (5)
  • Hecatostemon (9)
  • Hisingera (16)
  • Homalium (119)
  • Kuhlia (7)
  • Laetia (235)
  • Lindackeria (201)
  • Lunania (82)
  • Macrothumia (2)
  • Mayna (186)
  • Monandrodendron (2)
  • Neopringlea (1)
  • Neoptychocarpus (47)
  • Neosprucea (38)
  • Olmediella (2)
  • Patrisia (7)
  • Peridiscus (15)
  • Pineda (43)
  • Pleuranthodendron (26)
  • Prockia (136)
  • Ptychocarpus (1)
  • Ryania (275)
  • Samyda (20)
  • Tetrathylacium (101)
  • Trilix (3)
  • Xylosma (255)
  • Zuelania (3)