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
  • Abarema (49)
  • Acacia (280)
  • Adenopodia (5)
  • Albizia (108)
  • Balizia (7)
  • Calliandra (224)
  • Cojoba (249)
  • Desmanthus (11)
  • Entada (47)
  • Enterolobium (43)
  • Eysenhardtia (1)
  • Havardia (1)
  • Inga (1748)
  • Larrea (3)
  • Leucaena (28)
  • Lysiloma (54)
  • Mimosa (346)
  • Neptunia (45)
  • Newtonia (11)
  • Parkia (11)
  • Pentaclethra (42)
  • Piptadenia (8)
  • Pithecellobium (106)
  • Prosopis (26)
  • Pseudosamanea (3)
  • Samanea (36)
  • Schrankia (5)
  • Sphinga (10)
  • Stryphnodendron (23)
  • Zapoteca (106)
  • Zygia (198)