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
  • Borago (3)
  • Bourreria (107)
  • Cerinthe (1)
  • Cordia (807)
  • Cryptantha (8)
  • Cynoglossum (33)
  • Echium (1)
  • Ehretia (21)
  • Hackelia (45)
  • Heliotropium (107)
  • Ixorhea (1)
  • Lappula (2)
  • Lithospermum (1)
  • Macromeria (1)
  • Mallotonia (1)
  • Moritzia (7)
  • Myosotis (3)
  • Pectocarya (1)
  • Rochefortia (7)
  • Saccellium (1)
  • Tournefortia (383)