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
  • Acalypha (142)
  • Acidoton (6)
  • Actinostemon (5)
  • Adenophaedra (3)
  • Alchornea (31)
  • Alchorneopsis (3)
  • Aleurites (3)
  • Amanoa (1)
  • Aparisthmium (5)
  • Argythamnia (6)
  • Bernardia (6)
  • Caperonia (29)
  • Chamaesyce (88)
  • Cleidion (6)
  • Cnidoscolus (25)
  • Codiaeum (1)
  • Conceveiba (3)
  • Croton (386)
  • Dalechampia (135)
  • Drypetes (52)
  • Dysopsis (8)
  • Euphorbia (260)
  • Garcia (31)
  • Gymnanthes (45)
  • Hevea (21)
  • Hippomane (18)
  • Hura (40)
  • Hyeronima (170)
  • Jatropha (80)
  • Joannesia (1)
  • Mabea (102)
  • Manihot (60)
  • Margaritaria (69)
  • Omphalea (39)
  • Pausandra (40)
  • Pedilanthus (12)
  • Pera (19)
  • Phyllanthus (281)
  • Plukenetia (52)
  • Richeria (30)
  • Ricinus (21)
  • Sagotia (8)
  • Sapium (194)
  • Sauropus (4)
  • Sebastiania (29)
  • Synadenium (2)
  • Tetrorchidium (103)
  • Tragia (29)