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
  • Acoelorraphe (2)
  • Acrocomia (4)
  • Aiphanes (1)
  • Asterogyne (63)
  • Astrocaryum (15)
  • Attalea (3)
  • Bactris (156)
  • Calyptrogyne (116)
  • Chamaedorea (945)
  • Cocos (1)
  • Colpothrinax (2)
  • Cryosophila (14)
  • Cyrtostachys (1)
  • Desmoncus (18)
  • Elaeis (5)
  • Euterpe (9)
  • Geonoma (420)
  • Hyospathe (7)
  • Iriartea (17)
  • Manicaria (5)
  • Neonicholsonia (28)
  • Oenocarpus (4)
  • Phoenix (1)
  • Pholidostachys (23)
  • Prestoea (66)
  • Raphia (4)
  • Reinhardtia (84)
  • Sabal (2)
  • Socratea (11)
  • Synechanthus (74)
  • Welfia (11)