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
  • Allophylus (677)
  • Athyana (19)
  • Averrhoidium (8)
  • Blighia (2)
  • Blomia (1)
  • Bridgesia (9)
  • Cardiospermum (288)
  • Castanella (1)
  • Comatoglossum (2)
  • Cupania (557)
  • Diatenopteryx (27)
  • Dilodendron (18)
  • Diplokeleba (17)
  • Dipterodendron (1)
  • Dodonaea (239)
  • Exothea (1)
  • Houssayanthus (6)
  • Llagunoa (77)
  • Lophostigma (3)
  • Magonia (27)
  • Matayba (628)
  • Melicoccus (46)
  • Paullinia (1198)
  • Pentascyphus (1)
  • Pseudima (49)
  • Sapindus (104)
  • Schmidelia (19)
  • Scyphonychium (1)
  • Semarillaria (6)
  • Serjania (1606)
  • Talisia (344)
  • Thinouia (25)
  • Thouinia (12)
  • Thouinidium (7)
  • Toulicia (97)
  • Tripterodendron (2)
  • Ungnadia (2)
  • Urvillea (160)
  • Valenzuelia (10)
  • Vouarana (15)