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
  • Acmanthera (5)
  • Adelphia (5)
  • Aenigmatanthera (4)
  • Alcoceratothrix (2)
  • Alicia (8)
  • Amorimia (26)
  • Aspicarpa (25)
  • Banisteria (110)
  • Banisteriopsis (835)
  • Barnebya (2)
  • Blepharandra (37)
  • Bronwenia (10)
  • Bunchosia (320)
  • Burdachia (65)
  • Byrsonima (1550)
  • Cabi (1)
  • Callaeum (64)
  • Camarea (51)
  • Carolus (13)
  • Christianella (4)
  • Clonodia (18)
  • Coleostachys (3)
  • Cordobia (4)
  • Cottsia (1)
  • Diacidia (38)
  • Dicella (73)
  • Dinemagonum (12)
  • Dinemandra (39)
  • Diplopterys (69)
  • Echinopterys (4)
  • Ectopopterys (6)
  • Gallardoa (2)
  • Galphimia (71)
  • Gaudichaudia (21)
  • Glandonia (9)
  • Heladena (11)
  • Heteropterys (872)
  • Hiraea (224)
  • Janusia (49)
  • Jubelina (11)
  • Lasiocarpus (3)
  • Lophanthera (37)
  • Lophopterys (13)
  • Malpighia (74)
  • Malpighiodes (1)
  • Mascagnia (314)
  • Mcvaughia (1)
  • Mezia (12)
  • Mionandra (8)
  • Niedenzuella (22)
  • Peixotoa (121)
  • Peregrina (5)
  • Psychopterys (1)
  • Pterandra (57)
  • Ptilochaeta (13)
  • Schwannia (15)
  • Sipapoa (8)
  • Spachea (36)
  • Stigmaphyllon (550)
  • Tetrapodenia (1)
  • Tetrapterys (678)
  • Thryallis (23)
  • Tricomaria (8)
  • Triopterys (2)
  • Verrucularia (4)