Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthus (2)
  • Aphelandra (438)
  • Asystasia (2)
  • Barleria (47)
  • Blechum (87)
  • Bravaisia (45)
  • Buceragenia (1)
  • Carlowrightia (1)
  • Chaetochlamys (7)
  • Chamaeranthemum (9)
  • Dicliptera (91)
  • Dyschoriste (11)
  • Elytraria (31)
  • Graptophyllum (4)
  • Habracanthus (79)
  • Hansteinia (18)
  • Henrya (6)
  • Herpetacanthus (29)
  • Hygrophila (37)
  • Hypoestes (11)
  • Justicia (559)
  • Kalbreyeriella (4)
  • Lepidagathis (15)
  • Louteridium (7)
  • Megaskepasma (7)
  • Mendoncia (102)
  • Nelsonia (29)
  • Odontonema (58)
  • Poikilacanthus (18)
  • Pseuderanthemum (47)
  • Razisea (151)
  • Ruellia (312)
  • Sanchezia (6)
  • Spathacanthus (36)
  • Staurogyne (1)
  • Streblacanthus (2)
  • Tetramerium (23)
  • Thunbergia (79)
  • Trichanthera (2)