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
  • Aegopodium (1)
  • Ammi (4)
  • Angelica (2)
  • Arracacia (12)
  • Azorella (10)
  • Berula (1)
  • Bifora (2)
  • Bolax (1)
  • Carum (1)
  • Caucalis (1)
  • Centella (5)
  • Chaerophyllum (1)
  • Cicuta (1)
  • Conium (2)
  • Coriandrum (1)
  • Cyclospermum (26)
  • Daucus (16)
  • Donnellsmithia (3)
  • Eryngium (81)
  • Foeniculum (5)
  • Heracleum (2)
  • Hydrocotyle (210)
  • Micropleura (4)
  • Myrrhidendron (78)
  • Myrrhis (1)
  • Neonelsonia (3)
  • Niphogeton (15)
  • Oreomyrrhis (7)
  • Osmorhiza (6)
  • Ottoa (21)
  • Oxypolis (1)
  • Pastinaca (2)
  • Peucedanum (1)
  • Pimpinella (1)
  • Pseudocymopterus (1)
  • Sanicula (79)
  • Spananthe (45)
  • Thaspium (1)
  • Torilis (1)
  • Zizia (1)