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
  • Aniseia (14)
  • Bonamia (6)
  • Convolvulus (39)
  • Cuscuta (20)
  • Dichondra (13)
  • Dicranostyles (6)
  • Evolvulus (66)
  • Ipomoea (765)
  • Iseia (3)
  • Itzaea (4)
  • Jacquemontia (49)
  • Maripa (102)
  • Merremia (159)
  • Odonellia (9)
  • Operculina (17)
  • Stictocardia (14)
  • Turbina (5)