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
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
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
  • Acanthella (6)
  • Acinodendron (1)
  • Aciotis (372)
  • Acisanthera (93)
  • Adelobotrys (169)
  • Allomaieta (3)
  • Alloneuron (13)
  • Anaectocalyx (14)
  • Appendicularia (8)
  • Arthrostemma (28)
  • Axinaea (200)
  • Axinanthera (1)
  • Behuria (11)
  • Bellucia (295)
  • Benevidesia (3)
  • Bertolonia (10)
  • Bisglaziovia (2)
  • Blakea (591)
  • Brachyotum (642)
  • Bucquetia (38)
  • Calophysa (1)
  • Calyptraria (10)
  • Calyptrella (7)
  • Cambessedesia (179)
  • Castratella (17)
  • Centradenia (7)
  • Centradeniastrum (4)
  • Centronia (20)
  • Chaenopleura (2)
  • Chaetogastra (14)
  • Chaetolepis (64)
  • Chaetostoma (73)
  • Chastenaea (9)
  • Clidemia (1501)
  • Comolia (143)
  • Conostegia (210)
  • Coryphadenia (1)
  • Cremanium (3)
  • Davya (4)
  • Desmoscelis (57)
  • Diolena (10)
  • Diplarpea (1)
  • Eriocnema (1)
  • Ernestia (53)
  • Farringtonia (1)
  • Fritzschia (10)
  • Graffenrieda (321)
  • Grischowia (1)
  • Henriettea (390)
  • Henriettella (13)
  • Heterocentron (13)
  • Heteronoma (3)
  • Heterotrichum (7)
  • Huberia (35)
  • Huilaea (1)
  • Icaria (1)
  • Kirkbridea (1)
  • Lasiandra (19)
  • Lavoisiera (44)
  • Leandra (1276)
  • Lithobium (1)
  • Loreya (87)
  • Macairea (239)
  • Macrocentrum (57)
  • Maieta (162)
  • Mallophyton (6)
  • Marcetia (198)
  • Marshallfieldia (2)
  • Melastoma (14)
  • Meliandra (2)
  • Meriania (422)
  • Merianthera (7)
  • Miconia (8832)
  • Micranthella (9)
  • Microlepis (15)
  • Microlicia (487)
  • Microphysca (1)
  • Monochaetum (223)
  • Monolena (42)
  • Mouriri (519)
  • Myriaspora (2)
  • Myrmidone (2)
  • Necramium (2)
  • Nepsera (69)
  • Noterophila (12)
  • Octomeris (2)
  • Octopleura (1)
  • Opisthocentra (6)
  • Osbeckia (1)
  • Ossaea (236)
  • Pachyanthus (3)
  • Pachyloma (11)
  • Pachymeria (2)
  • Pentossaea (5)
  • Phainantha (23)
  • Pilocosta (3)
  • Pleiochiton (8)
  • Pleroma (11)
  • Poteranthera (2)
  • Pterocladon (1)
  • Pterogastra (32)
  • Pterolepis (131)
  • Ptilanthus (2)
  • Purpurella (1)
  • Pyramia (2)
  • Rhexia (28)
  • Rhynchanthera (218)
  • Sagraea (11)
  • Salpinga (74)
  • Sandemania (5)
  • Schwackaea (3)
  • Siphanthera (79)
  • Spennera (14)
  • Stanmarkia (1)
  • Staphidiastrum (2)
  • Staphidium (3)
  • Stenodon (5)
  • Svitramia (5)
  • Tateanthus (5)
  • Tessmannianthus (26)
  • Tetrameris (2)
  • Tibouchina (1713)
  • Tibouchinopsis (2)
  • Tococa (775)
  • Topobea (41)
  • Trembleya (134)
  • Triolena (86)
  • Tulasnea (1)
  • Valdesia (9)
  • Votomita (5)
  • Wurdastom (2)