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
  • Adenolisianthus (6)
  • Blackstonia (4)
  • Calolisianthus (16)
  • Celiantha (8)
  • Centaurium (58)
  • Chelonanthus (260)
  • Chorisepalum (15)
  • Cicendia (2)
  • Coutoubea (106)
  • Curtia (73)
  • Deianira (2)
  • Enicostema (2)
  • Erythraea (4)
  • Eurythalia (2)
  • Eustoma (4)
  • Gentiana (290)
  • Gentianella (594)
  • Halenia (294)
  • Helia (7)
  • Irlbachia (118)
  • Lagenanthus (6)
  • Lehmanniella (6)
  • Leiphaimos (1)
  • Lisianthius (14)
  • Macrocarpaea (101)
  • Microcala (3)
  • Neblinantha (1)
  • Pagaea (6)
  • Pitygentias (1)
  • Potalia (101)
  • Prepusa (7)
  • Purdieanthus (1)
  • Reichertia (1)
  • Rogersonanthus (12)
  • Sabatia (4)
  • Schultesia (86)
  • Senaea (1)
  • Sipapoantha (1)
  • Swertia (5)
  • Symbolanthus (113)
  • Symphyllophyton (2)
  • Tachia (78)
  • Tapeinostemon (23)
  • Tetrapollinia (35)
  • Voyria (56)
  • Voyriella (1)
  • Wurdackanthus (1)
  • Xestaea (2)
  • Zeltnera (2)
  • Zygostigma (5)