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
  • Amphipterygium (5)
  • Anacardium (64)
  • Astronium (24)
  • Campnosperma (5)
  • Loxopterygium (1)
  • Mangifera (3)
  • Mauria (27)
  • Metopium (3)
  • Mosquitoxylum (3)
  • Pistacia (2)
  • Rhus (19)
  • Schinopsis (1)
  • Schinus (6)
  • Spondias (35)
  • Tapirira (18)
  • Toxicodendron (9)