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
  • Achimenes (33)
  • Alloplectus (122)
  • Amalophyllon (1)
  • Anetanthus (7)
  • Anodiscus (22)
  • Arctocalyx (1)
  • Asteranthera (10)
  • Besleria (599)
  • Brachyloma (1)
  • Bucinella (1)
  • Capanea (56)
  • Chrysothemis (19)
  • Codonanthe (110)
  • Codonanthopsis (25)
  • Codonophora (2)
  • Columnea (586)
  • Conradia (2)
  • Corytholoma (3)
  • Corytoplectus (68)
  • Crantzia (10)
  • Cremosperma (24)
  • Cremospermopsis (2)
  • Cyrtanthemum (1)
  • Dalbergaria (2)
  • Diastema (41)
  • Drymonia (363)
  • Episcia (57)
  • Eucodonia (1)
  • Fiebrigia (1)
  • Fluckigeria (1)
  • Fritschiantha (1)
  • Gasteranthopsis (1)
  • Gasteranthus (107)
  • Gesneria (34)
  • Glossoloma (112)
  • Gloxinia (166)
  • Gloxiniopsis (3)
  • Goyazia (3)
  • Heppiella (68)
  • Houttea (1)
  • Hypocyrta (6)
  • Isoloma (3)
  • Koellikeria (23)
  • Kohleria (189)
  • Lembocarpus (1)
  • Lesia (2)
  • Lietzia (3)
  • Mitraria (22)
  • Monopyle (37)
  • Moussonia (1)
  • Naegelia (3)
  • Napeanthus (23)
  • Nautilocalyx (134)
  • Nematanthus (42)
  • Neomortonia (28)
  • Nomopyle (1)
  • Paliavana (17)
  • Paradrymonia (72)
  • Pearcea (88)
  • Peltanthera (5)
  • Pentadenia (5)
  • Phinaea (4)
  • Pterobesleria (1)
  • Rechsteineria (8)
  • Reldia (16)
  • Resia (2)
  • Rhoogeton (4)
  • Rhynchoglossum (3)
  • Rhytidophyllum (1)
  • Rufodorsia (2)
  • Sanango (13)
  • Sarmienta (6)
  • Scoliotheca (2)
  • Seemannia (25)
  • Sinningia (179)
  • Solenophora (5)
  • Sphaerorrhiza (1)
  • Synepilaena (2)
  • Tapina (2)
  • Trevirana (4)
  • Trichantha (4)
  • Trichodrymonia (1)
  • Vanhouttea (2)